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Overlooking Central Park and 
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Central Park West 



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RINALDI'S 

OFFICIAL 

GUIDE BOOK 



INDEX 



Page 

Alligator Farm 81 

Anclote River 35 

Arrival by Boat 11 

Arrival by Train 9 

As Yet a Wilderness 297 

Atlantic Coast Line 17 

Automobiles 91 

Autos for Hire 13 

Baggage 9 

Ballast Point Park 75 

Band Concerts 57 

Bank Deposits 309 

Bartow 462 

Bayshore Boulevard 55 

Bee Keeping Possibilities. ... 347 

Birds 137 

Bird's-Eye eViw of Tampa... 57 

Boat Passengers 13 

Bradentown 433 

Brooksville 457 

Carew Homestead 51 

Carnegie Library 49 

Canoes 91 

Centro Asturiano Club 106 

Centro Asturiano Sanitarium. 103 

Centro Espanol 105 

Centro Espanol Club 106 

Centro Espanol de West 

Tampa 106 

Centro Espanol Sanitarium .. 103 

Children's Home 103 

Chicago to Florida 283 

Churches 63, 143 

Cigar Boxes 279 

Cigar Factories 63 

Circulo Cubano 106 

City Beautiful 312 

City Churches 314 

City Hall 45 

City Information Bureau .... 25 

Clara Prye Hospital 103 

Clearwater 481 

College of Sacred Heart 99 

Coming of White Men 297 

Confederate Monumeuit ..... 49 

Contents 6 

Cost of Living 312 

Country Clubs Ill 

Court Square 41, 69 

Circulo Cubano Club 105 

Dade City 497 

Dam, the 85 

Death Rate 310 

DeSoto Came in 1539 291 

DeSoto Oaks 63 



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DeSoto Park 69 

Dixie Highway Map 17 3 

Drinking Water 310 

Dunedin 417 

Early Historical Facts 289 

Electric Company 283 

Elks Club 109 

Espiritu Santo 81, 293 

Estuary 308 

Everglades 129 

Fire Department 315 

First Discoveries 289 

Fisherman's Paradise 193 

Fishing 91 

Florence Villa Golf 188 

Florida a Delight to the 

Golfer 169 

Florida Alligators 59 

Florida Devil Fish 225 

Florida Good Roads 273 

Florida's Beautiful 

Waterways 121 

Foreword 7 

Fort Brooke 2(87 - 

For the Rich 312 

For Those Who are Not 312 

Free Tuition 314 

Goldstein's Pools 81 

Golf 87, 169 

Golf at Bradentown 188 

Golf at Bellaire 177 

Golf at Tarpon Springs 183 

Golf at -Fort Mvers 191 

Good Roads 161 

Gordon Keller Hospital 103 

Government Build ng 47 

Harbor 308 

Haven Beach 431 

Health 309 

Highland Park 73 

Hillsborough Court House . . 47 
Hillsborough Orange Groves. 79 

Hillsborough River 49, 130 

Horse Racing 91 

Hospitals and Homes 103 

Hotels 21, 314 

Indian River 129 

Industrial and Commercial. . 303 

Kiwanis Club 110 

Knights of Pythias Home... 107 
Lafayette Sitreet Bridge .... 47 

Lakeland 511 

Lake Thonotosassa 85 

Launches 87 



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INDEX-Continued 

Pag-e Page 

L'Unione Italiano Club 109 Six Mile Creek 85 

Macfarlane Park 73 Soutli Florida Bids 139 

Manatee 432 South Florida Needs Farmers 321 

Masonic Home 109 Soutli Florida Fair 61 

Milk Supply 310 Sports and Outdoor Pastimes 87 

Moving- Picture Theatres ... 39 Spanish Dinners 63 

Moore Haven 452 Starting- Point of Everything 41 

Nearby Points of Interest... 73 Steamship and Steamboats... 23 

Needed Rural Welfare Uplift. 329 St. Jobs River 123 

Ne-vv York to Florida 281 St. Petersburg 478 

Ockla-waha River 126 Sportive Black Bass 247 

Oldsmar 401 Streets and Boulevards 314 

Old Peoples Home 106 Street Cars 13 

Outgoing Baggage 9 Street Called Crooked 65 

Palma Ceia Golf Club ..175, 111 Sulphur Springs 73 

Palma Ceia Springs 79 Summer Days in Tampa 310 

Palmetto 462 Sunset Beach 79 

Palmetto Beach 65 Sunset Club 110 

I'arks and Playgrounds 65 Tampa a Cigar City 316 

Pass-a-Grille 477 Tampa a Good Place to Live. 312 

Philanthropic Societies 99 Tampa an Indian Name 300 

Picnic Island 83 Tampa Gasparilla Carnival ... 287 

Places of Amusement 35 Tampa & Gulf Coast R. R. . . . 21 

Places of Interest 41 Tampa a Tourist City 9 

Plant Citv 463 Tampa a Village in the 80s.. 301 

Plant Field 87 Tampa Bay Hotel 43 

Plant Memorial Fountain ... 59 Tainpa Becomes a Town ....300 

Plant Park 65 Tampa Bay Casino 35 

Plant Park Infirmary 103 Tampa From its Beginning .. 289 

Playgrounds 75 r£mpa's Good Roads 283 

Points of Interest 41 Tampa in Winter 310 

Police Court 59 Tampa in 1528 291 

Police Department 315 Tampa is Golf Mad 171. 

Police Headquarters 59 Tampa Northern Railroad . . 21 

Population 289 Tampa No-sv a City 303 

Port 308 Tampa of Today 308 

Port Tampa 77 Tampa's Wonderful Gro-wth. .301 

Postal Telegraph 25 Tampa Yacht and Country 

Postoffice „25 Club Ill 

PostofRce Receipts 309 Tarpon( the King of Fish . . . . 206 

Private Hospitals 103 Tarpon Springs 409 

Private Schools 101 Telegraph and Telephones ... 25 

Public Library AVofo Tennis Courts 87 

Public Schoob-. 101, 313 Ti-ains, Passengei-s 13 

Public Tennis Courts 87 Tourist Club 29 

Pythian Castle •' 106 Tourist Club Grounds 33 

Railroads 1'' Tourist Play Grounds 87 

Revenue ^^^ Union Station 9 

Road Map of Florida (Insert Useppa Golf 185 

After) 280 Vaudeville Houses 39 

Rocky Point ''9 Victory Theatre 39 

Rocky Point Golf Club.. 177, 111 Wealth 309 

Rotary Club 107 Weather Here and Every- 

Sacred Heart Church 91 where 53 

Safety Harbor 445 Western Union 25 

Salvation Army 99 When the Raidroad Came ...301 

Sarasota ;--!^f White Way 55 

Sarasota, An Indian Legend.. 465 "V^Mn^ter Haven 459 

Sarasota, a White Man's Le- Woman's Clubs 109 

gend f^4 Wonderful Birds 137 

Sarasota Golf Course 185 Wonderful Trip 130 

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Silver Springs 127 Associaiion 




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HSBURY PARK, on the New Jersey shore of the 
broad Atlantic, has been called the place "where 
^ the sea and country meet" and by reason of this, 
and its unusual delightful and uniform climate, it offers 
the greatest variety of pleasurable activities and sports. 
All days at ASBURY PARK are seasonable, enjoyable 
days; each has its own particular appeal and charm to of- 
fer the seeker after rest, health and recreation. 
There's the widest and finest promenade in the world, 
where the boulevardier strolls, and the wheel chair never 
lags; there's the Casino, the social centre of the beach; 
the Arcade; where Pryor's famous A'merican 'band is 








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heard; pavilions and rest parlors the entire length 
the walk. 

Sea bathing and continuous broad ocean beaches attract 
the bather, while at the Natatoriuni one can enjoy\'>very 
day in a year, a hot salt water tub bath or a plunge in 
one of the finest pools in America. 

Temptingly beckoning the angler to try his luck in the 
undoing of the many varieties of game fish are the great 
blue waters of the majestic ocean with its fascinating and 
exhilarating deep sea fishing and sailing. The lover of 
the wanderlust is ever an enthusiast over the beauties of 
the three inland lakes and delights of motor boating and 
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The romance of moonlight nights on glistening waters 
over which float music and song from the water craft 
and from the ideal bungalows that dot the shores! Words 
cannot picture the delights of all this, and only experience 
will leave an adequate picture impressed upon the mind 
What a wide choice of outdoor and indoor pleasures from 
which to select: Broadway productions at the theatres; 
popular "movies;" dancing at the Casino and hotels; 
crabbing and sailing at nearby rivers; baseball, football, 
basketball, tennis, golf, polo, bowling, billiards, trap 
shooting, sleighing, skating, hockey and winter sports. 
To the motorist no other resort presents so many de- 
lights. Hundreds of miles of picturesque drives radiate 
in every direction through a country that charms by its 
natural beauty, and is enhanced to greater value by his- 
toric associations. 

And then the carnival days! The reign of babyhood 
and the fairy queen! The fun and frolic of Masque 
night! Venetian nights on land and water! Doth not 
this imply enjoyment? All produces a picture that is 
unforgetable and contributes to the "makeup" of Ameri- 
ca's most attractive ;resort city where the "glad hand" is 
ever extended to tKe "stranger within the gates." 
For any other information concerning the "Resort of 
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New York New York 



Florida Life Bldg., Jacksonville, Fla. 

No. 46 Adler Block, Daytona, Fla. 

The Fidelity Bank Bldg., Miami, Fla. 
Wood Block, St. Petersburg, Fla. 
Ponce de Leon Hotel, St Augustine, Fla. 
Clarendon Hotel, Seabreeze, Fla. 

No. 9 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga. 

Electrical Building, Ashville, N. C. 

311-312 Citizens Bank Bldg. Tampa, Florida 

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St. Augustine, Florida 

The Real Estate and Insurance Agents who 
can look after your wants are 

Eugene L Barnes and Son 

They sell city property and insure against fire, 
in fact all kinds of Insurance and Real Estate. 

Houses For Rent— Furnished or Unfurnished 

Notary Public 
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After Your Visit In South Florida 

Stop in Jacksonville on your way home. Take a few days to <► 
break your journey and see the Metropolis 
of the State 

Write us to reserve for"you accommodations and be assured of 
quiet, homelike surroundings 

Duval Hotel I 

JACKSONVILLE'S BEST KNOWN HOTEL 



CORNER HOGAN AND FORSYTHE STS. 

Opposite Postofl&ce 

^ Rates $1 and up without Bath; with Bath, $1.50 per person \l 

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HOTEL ROYAL PALMS 

JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 




Opposite Hemming Park, next to Hotel Windsor— opposite Cohen's Store 

Cozy, comfortable, homelike. Our dining room offers the best the market affords. 
Northern cooking — well served. Hot and cold running water in every room. Steam heat. 
European plan and American plan. Special weekly rates. Booklets furnished. 
R. P. DECKARD 




JACKSONVILLE 
FLORIDA 



HOTEL SEMINOLE 

J, B. Pound, President Chas. G. Day, Manager 

Only Steel Fireproof Hotel in Jacksonville 

250 ROOMS 

\ 75 Rooms with Bath, $2.50 and up 

75 Rooms without Bath 1 .50 and up 

Spacious Sample Rooms. Headquarters for all Conventions. A 
Stopover Point for Tourists from all Directions fof Florida 

WRITE FOR BOOKLET 

ASSOCIATE HOTELS— Hotel Savannah, Savannah, Ga.; 
Hotel Patten, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Hotel Henry Watterson, Louis- 
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Jacksonville's Select Familij Hotel 

THE PARK HOTEL 

208 HOGAN STREET 
HOMELIKE AND COMFORTABLE 

Reasonable Rates Open All Tke Year 

J. Keiidrick, Lessee and Manager 



RINALDI'S 



OFFICIAL 



GUIDE BOOK 



OF 



TAMPA 



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SOUTH FLORIDA 

WITH 

MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 



Compiled and Edited bij 

CHARLES VINCENT VAN HORN 




Printetl and PiiLlislaed hx] 

RINALDI PRINTING COMPANY 

Tampa, Florida 



Copyriskt 1920 

Rinaldi Prmting OonipanTi 



R I N A L D r S ^^ ^^/'^ 



OFFICIAL 



GUIDE BOOK 



CONTENTS 



Foreword • • 7 

Tampa, a Tourist City 9 

Arrival by Train 9 

Arrival by Boat 11 

Street Cars 13 

Steamships and Steamboats 13 

Railroads 17 

Hotels 21 

Telegraph and Telephones. . 25 

Postoffice 25 

City Information Bureau.. 25 

Tourist Club 29 

Places of Amusement 35 

Shopping Center 39 

Starting Point for Every 

thing 41 

Places of Interest 43 

Parks and Playgrounds.... 65 
Nearby Points of Interest. . T5 

Sports and Pastimes 87 

City Churches 93 

Philanthropic Societies .... 99 

Tampa Public Schools 101 

Hospitals and Homes 103 

■Clubs and Societies 106 

Country Clubs Ill 

Secret Societies 109 

Florida's Beautiful Water 

ways 121 

St. John's River 123 

The Romantic Ocklawaha. . . .126 

Silver Springs 127 

Across the Everglades 129 

Up the Indian River 129 

Florida Golfer's Delight 169 

The Beautiful Hillborough. . . 130 

A wonderful Trip 130 

Anclote River 135 

South Florida Birds 137 



Good Fishing in Florida Wa- 
ters 193 

Tarpon, the King of Fish.... 206 

Florida Devil Fish 225 

They all Come Fishing 237 

Map Florida Roads (Insert) 

Chicago to Florida 283 

New York to Florida 281 

Tampa's Gasparilla Carnival. 287 
Tampa from Beginning until 

Today 289 

Early Historical Facts 289 

Tampa's wonderful Growth. 301 
Industrial and Commercial 

Progress 303 

Tampa of Today 308 

The City's Wealth 309 

Health 309 

Climatic Conditions 257 

Public Schools 313 

City Churches 314 

Tampa, a Cigar City 316 

Florida's Agricultural Possi- 
bilities 321 

Oldsmar 401 

Dunedin 317 

Haven Beach 431 

Manatee 432 

Bradentown 433 

Safety Harbor 445 

Moore Haven 452 

Brooksville 457 

Winter Haven 459 

Bartow 462 

Palmetto 463 

Plant City 464 

Sarasota 465 

Pass-a-Grille 478 

St. Petersburg 479 

Clearwater 481 

Dade City 497' 



©CI.A5G1401 




FOREWORD 



OR THE eighth year this Guide Book is making its bow- 
to the traveling public. If it has been of service in the 
past, the publishers have fulfilled their original intention 
of issuing a book that would tell the seeker after information some 
interesting things about Tampa and this section of Florida. It 
tells the truth about Florida and Florida conditions and imparts 
this niformation in a concise and forceful manner. 

RINALDI'S OFFICIAL GUIDE BOOK OF TAMPA 
AND SOUTH FLORIDA 

this year is offering its readers much more valuable information 
than it has ever attempted before, and has sought to widen its 
scope with a number of new subjects that cannot help but prove 
of great interest to its readers. 

New features 'by authoritative writers, together with many new 
illustrations have been aded. Many of these illustration have never 
been shown before while otihers have been loaned by the highest 
sources of information on the particular subjects. To those who 
have so kindly assisted in this manner to make the Guide a suc- 
cess, the publisher takes this opportunity of expressing his many 
obligations. 

THE GUIDE'S FUTURE. 

Rinaldi's Guide in the fu- 
ture will continue to improve 
from year to year, and, always 
have as its mission, increased 
publicity for the West Coast 
and for all of South Florida. 
It will endeavor to preach a 
sermon to its friends in the 
North, that this great State of 
Florida is a great great place 
to live, not only for the win- 
ter months, but for the year 
round, and it will seek to em- 
phasize the fact that this par- 
ticular section is the very best 
part of the State. 

Its text will be Florida cli- 
mate, Florida agricultural 
possibilities and Florida's 
great advantages as a place to 
live. It will bid all the world 
a welcome to our great and' 
glorious State and ask the co- 
operation of all Florida boos- 
ters to assist it in fulfilling 
its mission. -,--...- 




H. C. RINALDI 
Publisher of Rinaldi's Guide Book 



"GET UP A PARTY" 

GO TO CUBA 



WITH THE 



Miami-Havana Touring Co. inc. 

Leaders in Personally Conducted Tours 

Everything Strictly Fir^-Class and Prices Reasonable. 
Correspondence Solicited 



TOURS BOOKED FROM TAMPA 

(Via Port Tampa) Steamers Every Sunday 

6 DAYS TRIPS 



Bookings end Tuesday P. M. previous to Suuday sailing in order 
to secure reservations 



IMPORTANT POINTS TO BE SEEN IN CUBA 

Morro Castle Residential section of Vedado, Colon 
Fortress Cabanas Cemetery and its memorials 

Old Columbus Cathedral Famous Royal Palms Ave. 

President's Palace Pineapple section and su^ar mills 

Temple of Colon Camp Columbia and Marianao 

Senate Chamber General Weyler's summer home 

Old City Wall General Wood Headquarters 

Students's Slab City of Matanzas 

Orplifliis' Home Yumuri Valley 

Site of Old Lepers' Hospital Bellemar Caves 

and many other points of great interest 



For Booklet and full information about passport address 

W. B. HOYT, 2nd Vice President 

BAY VIEW HOTEL TAMPA, FLORIDA 



Tlie Belleview^ 

BELLEAIR HEIGHTS, FLORIDA 
"Golfer s Soutliern Paraaise 




Winter tourists in Florida sliould 
not fail to visit 

Tke Belleview^ 

— most comf ortatle kotel in Floriaa. Beau- 
tiful Grounds. Twro finest 18 kole Goli 
Courses in tke Soutk. New Open Air Swim- 
ming Pool. Excellent Motor Roads. 

C. S. KROM, Manager 



'TOP O' THE TOWN" 

Hotel Hillsboro 




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Absolutely Fire Proof 

250 Rooms 
VIEW THE CITY FROM 

Roof Garden 

RESTAURANT 



TAMPA. 



FLORIDA 



A TOURIST CITY-HOW TO ENJOY IT 




Wliat Tkis Grand Old Town Offers for Your Aniusement 

and How Best to See It^ — Its Citizens Offer You 

tke Glad Hand of Welcome. 

AMPA is a big tourist city. Hundreds of guests 
annually are attracted by its almost perfect 
climate, its wonderful resources^ its surrounding 
scenic beauty, its general atmosphere of health 
and cleanliness and its big high-class hotels for 
their entertainment. View it from most any angle 
and it looks good to you when you arrive, and 
looks better the longer you stay. It's a busy, 
hustling, cosmopolitan city, extending a welcome to every visi- 
tor in its midst. 

The Union Station — x\ll trains entering Tampa stop at the 
Union Station. Travelers will find here a dining room, lunch 
countre and news stand. The Tampa Womans Christian Tem- 
perance Union maintains an Information Bureau in the Station for 
the accommodation of women travelers. 

ARRIVING BY TRAIN. 

Baggage — Express agents meet all incoming trains. They will 

take your checks, 
give you a re- 
ceipt, and deliver 
baggage to any 
part o f Tampa, 
Ybor City or 
West Tampa. 
Payment may be 
made in advance 
or on receipt of 
the baggage. 
All city hotels 
will send for 
your baggage 
promptly. 

Outgoing Bag- 
gage — By previ- 
ous arrangement, 
a n expressman 
The Union Station will call and take 




TARPON SPRINGS BUS LINE 

PULLMAN CARS 22 PASSENGERS 

Daily Service Between Tampa, Oldsmar, Sutherland, Wall Springs and Tarpon Springs 

SCHEDULE 

TAMPA TO TARPON SPRINGS 



Leaves Tampa 

Leaves Oldsmar 8:45 

Leaves Sutherland 

Leaves Wall Springs 

Arrive Tarpon Springs 



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8:00 


10:00 


1:00 


3:00 


5:00 


8:45 


10:45 


1:45 


3:45 


5:45 


9:10 


11:10 


2:10 


4:10 


6:10 


9:20 


11:20 


2:20 


4:20 


6:20 


9:30 


11:30 


2:30 


4:30 


6:30 


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10:00 


1:00 


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3:10 


5:10 


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10:20 


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10:35 


1:35 


3:35 


5:35 


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11:3a 


2:30 


4:30 


6:30 



Leaves Tarpon Springs 
Leaves Wall Springs 
Leaves Sutherland 
Leaves Oldsmar 
Arrive Tampa 

Leaves Tampa at Ressler's, opposite Poslnfiice. 30 mile trip. 1 /4 liour drive to Tarpon Springs, World's 
biggest sponge isariiet. Fare $1.00 

Coast Route, Tarpon Springs, Wail Springs, Sutheriand, Dunedin, Clearwater 
SCHEDULE. 

Leaves Tarpon Springs 8:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 

Leaves Clearwater 10:15 a.m. 2:45 p.m. 5:15 p.m. 

Arrives Clearw^ater 8:45 a.m. 1:45 p.m. 4:45 p.m. 

Arrives Tarpon Springs 11:00 a.m. 3:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 

15 mile drive. 45 minutes Gulf view trip. 50c. Cnnnecls at Clearwater with Auto Line to St Petersburg 
Tampa Phone 2106 Tarpon Springs Phone 41 



LAKE-ORLAND STAR LINE 

Daily Bus Service Between Lakeland and Orlando 



NORTHBOUND 

Leave a.m. 

Lakeland 9:45 

Auburndale 10:20 

Lake Alfred ...10:40 
Haines City . . . .11:00 

Davenport 11:15 

Loughman 11:35 

Campbell 11:55 

Kissimme 12:10 

Taft 12:35 

Orlando 1:00 



SCHEDULE 

SOUTHBOUND 

p.m. Leave a.m. p.m. 

2:45 Orlando 8:45 2:00 

3:20 Taft 9:10 2:20 

3:40 Kissimmee 9:35 2:45 

4:00 Campbell 9:50 2:55 

4:15 Loughman 10:10 3:15 

4:35 Davenport 10:30 3:30 

4:55 Haines City ....10:45 3:45 

5:10 Lake Alfred ...11:05 4:05 

5:35 Auburndale ....11:25 4:25 

6:00 Lakeland 12:00 5:00 



A beautiful Florida scenic route, 63 mile drive by picturesque lakes and 
througb magnificent citrus groves. Fare $2. (Dixie Highway) 

Connects at Lakeland with bus Ime for Tampa, Winter Haven, Bartow, 
Arcadia and all South Florida points. 

no Connect at Orlando for Sanford, Deland, Daytona and East Coast 
points. 

Connects at Haines City for Lake Wales and Sabring. 



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The Nest of the Floridsi Mocking Bird 

your gaggage to the station or to any steamship or steamboat 
wharf. 

ARRIVING BY BOAT 

Passengers will find agents of local express deliveries on the 
wharfs who wiU take your, checks, give you a receipt, and deliver 
your baggage to any part of Tampa, West Tampa or Ybor City 
Hotels will send for your bagggage. 



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If You are Interested in 

f LORID A REAL ESTATE 

f CONSULT US 

We are Real Estate Brokers and will find for you just the property you 
are looking for. 

We specialize in high-class properties, both country and city- It will ^ 
please us to talk over your real estate problems with you. All matters are 9 
given our careful attention. 

Our listings are complete, both large and small properties. 



Florida Investment Company 

Room 3. National City Bank Building 
TAMPA. FLORIDA 



The McDonald Cottages 

Four Private Houses Under One Management 

CATERS TO REFINED PEOPLE 



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Excellent TaLle. Clean Well Furnislied Rooms 







We 


Serve 


Regular 




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self 



Ollice 409 E. Lalavjett St. Mrs. M. C. McDonald 

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Automobiles for Hire — All of the following auto liveries are 
conveniently located and cars can be hired at regular city rates: 



Cadillac Auto Service — 309 14 
Eagle Auto Service — Twiggs 




Morning- Boat to St. Petersburg- 



Twiggs street, phone 3923. 
St., National Bank. Phone 2330. 
Elk Auto Service — Lafayette 
] and Tampa, phone 3301. 
j Hillsborough Auto Service — 
! Twiggs and Florida avenue. 
^ phone 3041. 

King Auto Service — Twiggs 
,:^ and Franklin, phone 2135 
STREET CARS. 
Tampa has an excellent 
trolley service which com- 
pletely networks the city in 
every diection. Except in 
very remote cases visitors 



will he able to transfer to within a few blocks of their destination. 
For Train Passengers — ^The Union Station car, marked "U," 
passes Union Station. Take car going south (to the left as you 
leave the station) for all hotels. This line passes or transfer's to 
lines running by or within a short walk of all leading hotels. 

For Boat Passengers — Arrivals over the Mallory Line from 
New York,Key West or Mobile, or Gulf and Southern Steamship 
Co., passengers from New Orleans; at the dock, take Seventh 
Ave. or Tampa Heights cars, either pass the doors of trans- 
fer to leading hotels. Passengers over the Favorite Line 
boats from St. Petersburg and Manatee River points, walk 

two short 
blocks east 
and take the 
above lines; 
or one block 
north to La- 
fayette St., 
where Ne- 
b r a ska, 
Wood lawn. 
Union Sta- 
t i o n or 
M i c higan- 
Hyde Park 
will either 
pass the 
doors or 
transfer t o 
1 e a d i n g 
Franklin Street at Court Square hotels. 

Mallory Steamship Co., foot of Franklin Street, boats to New 
York, Key West and Mobile. Take Tampa Heights or Seventh 
Avenue cars. 




I JONES HOTEL I 

i CATERS TO A REFINED FAMILY PATEONAGE f 



Good Rooms Exceleent Table Home Comforts ^ 

3> Hot and Cold Running Water in all Rooms ^ 

MEALS BY THE WEEK TO TOURISTS * 

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who prefer to live in furnished rooms or appartments 



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Best Faniily 
in Tampa 


Meals 


BREAKFAST 


DINNER 


SUPPER 


7:00 to 8:00 


11:50 to 1:50 


6:00 to 7:50 


Hier's Boarding House 


609 Tampa 

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Street 


Tampa, Florida 

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<^ t •> "< » « «« "«< — ~» g 

Attend The 

iritualist Church 

Meetings lield in Castle Hall 



Corner Morgan and Lalavjette Streets 

REV. H. L. CLOUGH, Pastor 

Services as Follows: 

Stuidaij Morning — Cliildren's Lijceum, 9:45 a. m. SLort Talk Lvj 
Pastor at 1 1:00 a. ni. 

Suiidavj Evening Sermon 7:50 p. m. 

TKursdav) Afternoon LoJies' Auxiliary] at 2:50 p. m. 

Tliiirsdavj Evening 8 p. ni, Ballot Secince proving that there are 

no dead. 

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Scene on the Hillsborougli River 



Gulf and Southern Steamship Co., foot of Franklin St., 'boats 
to New Orleans. Take Tampa Heights or Seventh Avenue cars. 
Passenger service discontinued since beginning of the war. 

Home Line — Service between Tampa and St. Petersburg. Boats 
leave Tampa foot of Whiting St. 

Towles Steamship Line, Hillsborough River and Carew Street. 

Boats to Fort Myers and Key West. Take Seventh Ave. or 
Tampa Heights car to Carew Street and walk one block west. 





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A Famous Apple 

Quality and advertising are making Bi^ Y the pre- 
ferred Apple of America, We ship only the cream 
of the crop from this celebrated Washington vall6y. 
Bi^ Y Apples will help build a reputation for the 
trade who sell them. Their known quality means big- 
ger sales and surer profits. Write us. 

Yakima Fruit Growers Assn. 

YAKIMA, WASHINGTON, U. S. A. 



GET THE 




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IN XOUTH FLORIDA 

WI4.50u¥Hfi-CO. 

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Peninsular and Oc- 
cidental Steamship 
Co., Port Tampa. 
Boats to Key West 
and Havana. Take 
Atlantic Coast Line 
tra n fro m Union 
Station. 

Bay Line, Co., Inc. 
(Bay Queen), Hills- 
borough River and 
Washmgton S t r e et. 
Boats to St. Peters- 
burg and Manatee 
River points. Take 
any line to Lafayette 
and Franklin Sts. and 
walk two short blocks 
south two short 
blocks west to river. 
Tampa and St. Pe- 
tersburg Transporta- 
tion Co., ( Wi 1 s o n 
Line), Hillsborough River and Jackson St. Boats to St. Peters- 
burg. Take any line to Lafayette and Franklin Streets and walk 
one short block south and two blocks west to river. 





Crabbing- Near Ballast Point 



RAILROADS. 

Atlantic Coast Line — (Union Station) Trains for the north and 
east, with connections at Jacksonville for Chicago and the north- 
west, and points west and southwest. Also southwest Florida 
points. Call phone 2411 (Union Station) for information about 
train schedule. 




Tampa Bay Hotel 



Seaboard Air Line — (Union Station) Trains for points in the 
north and east, connecting at Jacksonville with western, and north 



^ MARLBORO 
HOTEL 

Riglit in tlie Center oi Everv) tiling 



EUROPEAN PLAN 

ROOMS $1.00 AND UP 



Oiiltj a Step to tlie Business Section 

Plant Park, Court Scjnare, 

All Amusements. 



Ouir Ne^^^ Cafe 

Breakfast 7:50 to 9:00 Luiicli 12:00 to 2:00 

Dinner 5:50 to 8:00 

A la carte Specialties. ReasonaLle Prices 



All Depot Cars Pass Our Door 

Tampa and Zack Streets Tampa, Florida 



TOURIST SEEKING INFORMATION 

Should visit the Tampa Tourist Information Bureau in 
the City Hall which is maintained by the Tampa Board of 
Trade. A publicity director and corps of assistants will 
be found there to aid you in planning your trip in and 
about the city. This information is absolutely free. 




Courtesy Outing- Magazine. 

Wild Ducks on Open Water 



^ HOTEL OLIVE ^ 

A New Hotel With All Modern Conveniences 

Two Blocks South of Court Square on Franklin Street 




Not the Largest in Town, but the Most Homelike. 
Newly Painted, Papered and Refurnished. 

COME AND SEE US 

Strictly European Plan S. J. CARNES, Proprietor 

Same Management as Hotel Carnes, Sanford 



C. G. HUNT'S 

Southern Employment Bureau 

Furnishes You Help and Finds You Imployment 

Phone 2468 '^%f, 'O^r.iT" Tampa, Florida 



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and southeastern points. Also South Florida sections. Call phone 
2411 (Union Station) for information about train schedule. 

Tampa Northern — (Union Station) for local points to Brooks- 
ville and Centralia. Call phone 2411 (Union Station) for train 
schedule. 

Tampa and Gulf Coast— (Union Station) The T. & G. C. reaches 
the heart of Pinellas county via short line route between Tampa 
and St. Petersburg and between Tampa and Tarpon Springs; be- 
tween Tarpon Springs and Port Richey, and a shuttle service con- 
necting with all trains to and from Indian Beach, one of the finest 
resorts on the Gulf. Call phone 2411 (Union Station) for train 
schedule. 

HOTELS 

Tampa has some of the finest hotels in the South, where the 
visitor to the city can be sure to find accommodations measuring 
lip to the most critical taste. All the leading houses within a radius 
of a few short blocks. The following is a list of the leading hotels 
in the city. 



ALBURTUS, 942 Twiggs St. 
ALLEN HOTEL, 212 Tyler St. 
ARLINGTON, 1219% Franklin St. 
ALMO HOTEL, 313 Cass St. 
BAYVIEW, 218 Jackson St. 
BRISTOL, 700 Zack St. 
CONTINENTAL, giiVa Florida 
Ave. 



COTTAGE HOTEL, 701 Zack St. 

DESOTO, 701 Marion St. 

DETROIT HOTEL, 1014% Frank- 
lin St. 

GERALDINE, 109 Plant Ave. 

EL PASAJE HOTEL, 9th Ave. 
and 14th. St. 

HALE HOTEL, Franklin and 
Tyler St. 




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., 

afaLjette Hotel 




Up-to-date. Moderate Rates 




Near 1 he New Bridge 


One 


Block From Dairtj Kitclien and New Cafeteria. 




Convenient to All Car Lines 




Airvj Rooms. Hot and Cold Batlis 


100 Lafavjette Street Tampa, Florida 




MRS. L. B. DILLON, Prop. 


■ 


Same Management as Florida Hotel, Bradentown 



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ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A CLEAN, THOROUGH- 
LY MODERN POPULAR PRICED 

APARTMENT 

FAMILY HOTEL 

Rooms Single or En Suite 

Four Blocks from Court Square 
Both Hot and Cold Baths 

ROOMS FOR LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING 

THE HALE HOTEL H 

Corner Franklin and Tyler Streets 

Take Union Station car at Uni.on Station and transfer at 
Franklin Street 

MRS. L. L. FERGUSON 

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Beach Scene at Pass-a-Grille 



HILLSBORO, 315 Twiggs St. 

HOTEL, ATLANTIC, 1307% 
iFranklin St. 

HOTEL, OLIVE, 115 Franklin St. 

HOTEL ORANGE, 815 Tampa St. 

LAFAYETTE HOTEL,, 100 La- 
fayette St. 

LE ROY, 9141/2 Franklin St. 

LEA'S HOTEL, Jackson and Jef- 
ferson Sts. 



MAJESTIC, 112 W. Lafayette St. 

MARLBOROUGH, 707 Tampa St. 

MILLER'S 918 Twig-gs St. 

OGLETHORPE HOTEL, Frank- 
lin and Harrison Sts. 

ST. CLAIRE, 2011/2 Franklin St. 

TAMPA BAY HOTEL, Plant Park 

TRE.MONT, Tampa and Lafay- 
ette Sts. 



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Five Miles up the Picturesaue Hillsljorougli 

POST OFFICE 

Tampa's city post office occupies the two first floors of tfie 
government building, on the entire block at Florida Ave. between 
Madison and Zack Sts. It is a block northeast of Court Square 
and can be reached by Union Station or Port Tampa cars. 

The stamp and general delivery windows are open on week 
days from 7:30 a. m. to 8 p. m., and the latter until 9 p. m. 

Money order offices are open from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.; Register- 
ing department from 7:30 a. m. to 8 p. m.; Parcel Post department 
from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. 

TELEGRAPH AND PHONE HEADQUARTERS. 

Western Union — 604 Franklin St. second block north of Court 
Square. 

Postal Telegraph — 607 Franklin St., second block north of 
Court Square. 

Peninsular Telephone Co. — Corner Zack and Morgan Sts. 

CITY INFORMATION BUREAU. 

The city of Tampa maintains an Information Bureau in the City 
Hall. It will be found on the first floor to the right of the main 
entrance on Lafayette St., just across from Court Square. This 
bureau is under the direction of the City Board of Trade. Here 
tourist are asked to register, giving their home and local address. 
This regiser list enables strangers to find many friends and chance 
acquaintances. 

A list of hotels and rooming houses, of which the Bureau has 
made personal investigation, is kept here for the use of visitors 
and the director and his associates are prepared to give general 




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SOOY HOVER 

Photograplis 

GRACEFUL POSING 

ARTISTIC RETOUCHING 



BEAUTIFUL 

LIGHT AND SHADE EFFECTS 

CHARACTERIZE 



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PHOTOGRAPHS 



Lillian Sooy Hover, Artist 

FORMERLY OF 

sarony inc. 

FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK CITY 



501 Franklin Street, Tampa, Florida 

Write (or Inforn.ation 

COPYING engraving 



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Countesy Forrest and Stream. 

Remarkable Flashlight Photograph of a Florida 
Deer Taken in the Wild 



H THE GERALDIN II 

109 PLANT AVE. 
Opposite Tampa Bav| Hotel 

A lirst-class liouse lor correct people — no otliers need applu. 
We received ninety-seven per cent, hvj the liotel inspeitor. ■ 
Open all tlie vjear. 

DINING ROOM CAPACITY 100. 

Transient Lusiiiess mj day or week solicited. Tlie largest and 

Lest equipped place of its kind in Hyde Park. Catering 

onlv) to tke best. References: Any Lank, cliurcli 

or business liouse in tlie city. 

TAMPA : : : : FLORIDA 



"THE LEA'S" HOTEL 



K. M. &' W. M. LEA, Owners and Managers 

Corner JACKSON and JEFFERSON STREETS 
All Modem Conveniences 

A Higli Class PamilL) Hotel 
PHONE 5547 

SPECIAL RATES BY THE WEEK 
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707 Jackson Street Tampa, Florida 



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information regarding the attractions of the city, and how to find 
them. 

Much valuable literature can also be obtained at the Bureau. 
Tourists are invited to call and avail themselves of its many 
privileges. 

TOURIST CLUB. 

A general social Tourist Club has been organized to which all 
visitors to the city can become members on payment of a small 
initiation fee. Frequent meetings are held, socials, entertainments 
and lectures given, picnics and excursions promoted and the pleas- 
ures of winter visitors increased in many ways. 

This tourist clulb had fourteen hundred members last winter.. 
In addition to the many special affairs held by the club, regular 
Mondeay afternoon meetings are held in the Tampa Bay Casino,, 
where a program is rendered together with a weekly address iby 
some prominent member or local man. 

A Junior Club composed of the younger set of tourists has 
been organized this year and hold meetings once a week. These 
meetings are held at nig^ht. 
' The social life existing in this Tourist Club has been a pleas- 






Winter Visitors in the City Parks 



HOTEL ST. CLAIR 

C. V. CUNNINGHAM, Prop. 

A HOME FOR 




THE TOURIST 



Sixty-five Rooms ot 
Solid Comfort at 
Moderate Prices 

Long Sunny Porch 

and Well Heated 

Lobby 

PHONE3787 

FRANKLIN AT WASHINCXON ST. 

(One Block South at Court House) 

TAMPA FLORIDA 



HOTEL ORANGE 

815 TAMPA ST. TAMPA. FLA. 




AN UP-TO-DATE FAMILY HOTEL 
Catering to particular people. A comfortable home-like place with everything new, clean 
and sanitary. Rates $1.00. Special rates to families. Rooms with private baths. 

C. T. LEONARDI. Prop. 



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Moonlight on a Palm Lined Florida Key 

ing part of the visitor's stay in the city and the local Board of 
Trade who promote the club have aided the organization in many 
ways to make it a success. 



like oranges? Drink 

ORANGE'CRUS 





You'll enjoy the flavor of luscious golden- 
ripe oranges in Ward's Orange-Crush. 
It's delightful fragrance and rare taste- 
charm are tempting to thirsty throats. As a 
table drink it is exceptionally good. 

Orange-Crush is everything one could, wish 
for in quality, purity and flavor because it is 



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sun-matured oranges, purest sugar and citric 
acid — the natural acid found in all citrus fruits. 

Lemon-Crush, the companion drink to Orange- 
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Tourist Club Grounds — Grounds have been laid out in an annex 
to Plant Park (take Hyde Park-Michigan Ave or Union Station 
cars w^est) just west of the Tampa Bay Hotel entrance. Here are 
croquet and roque grounds, tennis courts, horseshoe yard and out- 
door tables for checkers and other games. This is a general meet- 
ing place for dub members and their friends. The headquarters 
of the club is at the City Information Bureau in the City Hall. 

This pleasure place has become very popular with winter guests 
to the city, and all through the day crowds of sport-loving visitors 
from every State in the Union are seen here enjoying the many 
pastimes the Club grounds affords. 

SIGHT SEEING 

Sight seeeing automobiles run on regular schedule, and provide 
comfortable and convenient facilities for viewing places of interest 
in and around Tampa. The tour usually includes a visit through 
one or more of the large cigar factories in Ybor City or West 
Tampa. The tours are conducted by lecturers, who point out and 
explain the features along the way. 




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Hillsborough River from Tofvers of Tampa Bay Hotel 

PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. 

Tampa as a big thriving city offers a variety of clean, healthy 
amusements to the visitor w^ithin her gates. 

Tampa Bay Casino — Is located in Plant Park. It is munici- 
pally owned and governed. Here are given plays, by big road 
companies, of leading metropolitan attractions, home talent pro- 
ductions, lyceum courses and afifairs. Under its flioor is ahugh 
cement tank and during the summer months the building is us- 
ually converted into a natatorium. 



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" I he Store of Style and Quality" 

214 Lafayette St. TAMPA, FLORIDA 

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Victory Theatre— This nev^ and up-to-date play house is now 
under construction and is expected to be completed before th( 
end of the tourist season. It will be fitted out with every con., 
venience for the comfort of its patrons and is expected to seat 
about 2,200 people. Here will be shown the best road produc- 
tions, as the management promises the largest and most complete 
theatre in the South. 

Moving Picture Theatres— Tampa has its share of attractive 
"Movie" houses, which are liberally patronized. These houses give 
continuous performances and are all open every day in the year. 
ALCAZAR, 606 Franklin St. BONITA, 710 Franklin St 

CENTRO BSPANOL, 1536 7th Ave NATIONAL, 1610 Tth Ave 
GRAND, 510 Franklin St. RIVOLL 1536 7th Ave 

LA PLAZA, 1411 7th Ave. STRAND, 204 Twig-g-s Sit. 

Vaudeville Houses — The following houses are running a season 
ofvaudeville this winter and offer high-class variety attractions 
and musical comedy shows, together with motion pictures: 

PRINCE, 1118 Franklin St. SAN SOUCL 1317 7th Ave. 

THE SHOPPING CENTER. 

The section of Tampa between Tampa street on the west 
and Florida Avenue on the east, Lafayette Street on the south, 
and Zack Street on the north, divided iDy Franklin Street 
which is the city's main business thoroughfare, comprise the six 
city blocks known as the main shopping center. It is all near 
Court Square of which it is its southeastern corner. Nearly every 

street car in the city cir- 
cles a loop in this section, 
the outward limits of which 
are the streets named. 
Within this radius can be 
found the greater majority 
of the best retail establish- 
ments of the city, although 
the business section is 
growing so rapidly that 
many stores of more than 
ordinary importance are 
to be found outside of 
these boundries. The ma- 
jority of the important 
wholesale establishments 
are located within a few 
blocks of this center, the 
river front, Water and 
Tampa Streets having the 
greater number. 

This district is rapidly 
branching out into other 
lines o f business, being 
particularly true as many 
of the new automobile 
establishments have been 
erected within the last 
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Mcm])crs of National and State Associations 

We try to keep well up with all new discoveries and 
developments of the profession 

The best is none too good for our patients 
Our Motto: ."Preparedness" 

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Hours 1):0() to 12 ni.; 1 ::50 to 5::!0 p. m. 

Office Phone 3921 Residence Phone 2713 

HILLSBOROUGH HOTEL BUILDING 

Opposite Catholic Church 



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Famous in Tampa Since 1 900 

Dinners and Lunches 

A la Carte at All T'imes 



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THE STARTING POINT FOR EVERYTHING. 

It is best for the tourists to have a starting point in all their 
rambles about the city. 

Court Square is located in the very iheart of the business 
section of the tow^n. This delightful park, surrounds the im- 
posing building of the Hillsborough County Courthouse, and af- 
fords a pleasant resting place. It is a thing of beauty with its v^rell 
kept lawns, tropical shrubbery and gorgeous flower beds. Here 
magnificient palmettos and lofty shade trees overhang the many 
comfortable rustic seats which are always well patronized by the 
visiting tourists. This is a place where "everybody meets every- 
body else," and the point from where tour- 
ists start on their days ^ of sight seeing. Here, 
on the way from their , \i hotel to places of 
amusement, they pause ^^^ t o greet the people 
they have met the day S, before. As this is the 




Court Square and Hillsborough County Courthouse 

starting point of everything we will center all our little sight 
seeing tours or excursions hereafter from Court Square. 

The square contains the Confederate monument, a cement and 
iron fountain, containing an interesting collection of native Flor- 
ida alligators and a municipal bandstand. This park, at a band 
concert, is a very gay and busy place and it's surprising how many 
friends one meets, who are supposed to be in far distant States. 



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Hillsborougli River Near Sulphur Springs 

PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. 

Tampa Bay Hotel — Located in Plant Park, north from the gates 
at Hyde Park Ave., is pre-eminently the leading show place in all 
Tampa as a point of interest to the visitor. This magnificient 
structure, built after the Moorish style of architecture is the only 
thing of its kind in America. Daring in its conception, with a 
wealth of vast arches, pinnacled towers, spacious verandas and 
Oriental carvings, it depicts a truly wonderful and realistic 



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TABLE D'HOTE 

DINNERS and SUPPERS 

This Restaurant is Managed by Northern People using 
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reproduction of Eastern con- 
struction, and rivals in its uni_ 
queness, the many show place 
hotels on the continent. 

Tihe hotel was built by the 
late Henry B. Plant and opened 

The 



to the public in 
fittings are in keeping 
with the 'building, and 
grounds, hotel and fur- 
nishings are said to have 
cost over $3,000,000. 

This wonderful pile of 
Oriental architecture; 
with its fairyland setting 
of huge trees and tropi- 
cal foliage, its ripening- 
orchards of Florida 
fruits and superb rose 
gardens; and its many 
well shaded walks, 
banked with odd 
plants and beds of 
beautiful flowers; 
was deeded to the ,.,.- 
City of Tampa on 
June 23rd, 1905, by 
the heirs of the 
late Henry 
Plant, for $125,000 
It represents the 
finest municipally 







owned hotel in the South. It 
is only a few minutes walk west 
on Lafayette Street from Court 
Square. Hyde Park, Union 
Station, Ballast Point and Port 
Tampa cars pass the gates. 
City Hall — The city govern- 
ment has its ad- 
ministration in the 
City Hall, a mas- 
sive brick and 
granite building at 
Lafayette Street 
and Florida Ave- 
nue south of 
Court Square. 

It was built in 
1915, and cost 
$235,000. It stands 
ten stories with a 
clock tower 
rising two 
stories high- 
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Detective Bureau, Criminal Records, City Lock-up and Magis- 
trate's Court. 

The City Hall proper contains the oi^ce of the Mayor, Council 
Chamber, various city officers, Board of Trade and City Publicity 
Bureau. The inside of the building is trimmed in marble, with 
marble stairways and wainscoting. It is equipped with elevator 
service to the top of the tower to which visitors are welcome. 

The' Government Building — Florida Avenue, between Twiggs 
and Zack Streets, as a four story white marble building with lofty 
fluted columns at its main entrance. The government spared no 
expense in building this beautiful structure, and Tampa is justly 
proud of its magnificient proportions. It is said to have cost 
^350,000 including the lot on which it stands. It contains the 
City PostofHce, Custom House, U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue, 
U. S. District Attorney's office, U. S. Commissioner's office, U. S. 
Customs Special Agent's office, U. S. Engineer's office, U. S. 
Postoffice Inspector's office, U. S. District Court and Ui. S. 
Weather Bureau, U. S. Army Recruiting Station, and at present 
various special Government War Board offices. 

Hillsborough County Courthouse — In Court Square is a build- 
ing unique in its style of architecture that immediately attracts 
the attention of the visitor. It is built of brick with stone trim- 
mings, surmounted by a lofty Moorish tower in keeping with the 
style of architecture of the Tampa Bay Hotel. This building con- 
tains the various county offices and county courts. Many public 
meetings are held here and the grounds surrounding it is a very 
popular place for visitors to the city. 

Lafayette Street Bridge — One of the finest reinforced concrete 
bridges in the South, erected by the city of Tampa at a cost of 
approximately $300,000. This bridge was opened to the public in 
the early spring of 1914, and spans the Hillsborough River at 
Lafayette Street, connecting the downtown business section of 
the city with the residential section of Hyde Park and other 
suburbs. 

This bridge is a remarkable structure, as there is only one other 
like it in the world, which spans the Thames in London. It is 
built of solid concrete, of the Bascule type with a Sherzer Roller 
Lift draw bridge. The Thames lift is 17 feet longer, but the Tam- 
pa bridge is 20 feet .wider. The draw bridge weighs 1,500 tons, and 
has" such a perfect balance that a small boy could lift it. Last 
year the bridge was raised and lowered 1,669 times to allow the 
larger craft to pass up and down the Hillsborough. Built of con- 
crete with steel reinforcing and paved with wood block, weather 
conditions materially affect its weight and balance. Mechanical 
contrivances allow its tenders to regulate these conditions, and 
in rainy weather as much as a thousand pounds have been added 
to perfectly balance the lift. 

The bridge is only two blocks east on Lafayette Street from 
Court Square. Michigan Ave., Hyde Park, Ballast Point, Union 
■Station and Port Tampa cars cross it. 



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Tampa Public Library — At Seventh Avenue, between Franklin 
and Tampa Streets, is the public library, made possible by the 
generous gift of $50,000 by the late Andrew Carnegie to the 
City of Tampa. The building was opened during the early 
summer of 1917 A public 
spirited winter resident, 
Mr. L. H. Lothridge, of 
New Jersey, donated 2,000 
volumes of standard works 
and the Tampa Daily 
Times originated a "Book 
Shower" which produced 
3,000 more. The Library 
at present has about 12,500 
books, 4,000 of which have 
been added during the past 
year. It is opened every 
day except Sundays. 

Confederate Monument — 

Stands on the southeast 
corner of Court Square at 
the corner of Franklin and 
Lafayette Streets. This 
imposing marble shaft was 
erected in 1911 by Tampa 
Chapter United Daughters 
of Confederacy, as a lasting 
memorial to the brave sons 
of the South who sacrificed 
their lives, their homes and 
their all for "The Lost 
Cause." 

Hillsborough River di- 
vides the business and older 
residential section of Tam- 
pa on the east, from West 
Tampa and the newer resi- 
dential sections of Hyde 
Park and numerous new 
subdivisions on tlie west. 
It is without dispute _ one 
of the most beautiful rivers 
in South Florida, and the 
scenery along its banks 
rivals the far-famed St. 
Johns. 
Docks accommodate shipping south from the Lafayette street 
bridge to the bay. Above the bridge are private docks and accom- 
modations for smaller craft. The river is dredged to a depth of 




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24 feet to all docks, narrowing to a 13 foot channel from the 
Lafayette street bridge up to Tampa Steam Ways. From there 
to Sulphur Springs the estimated depth of high tide is seven feet. 
This distance is about nine miles. The river is navigable for 
small craft some six miles farther to the Tampa Electric Co. 




power dam. A motor boat trip up the Hills- 
borough is a succession of delightful vistas 
and should be included in the tourist's itin- 
erary. Pleasure boats make regular trips 

from the public docks in Plant Park, where launches and fishing 

boats can also be rented. 

Carew Homestead — On the southwest corner of Franklin and 
Krause Streets is the old Carew Mansion.- It stands well back in 
a grove of magnificent moss-hung live oaks, centuries old. The 
original old log "block house" at Fort Brooke was, in a few years, 
replaced by more comfortable officers' quarters, and that garri- 
son is the present Carew homestead. 

When the government reservation was relinquished, Jan. 4, 
1883, and transferred to the Interior Department, the whole was 
restored to the public domain and opened to homestead entry. 
The Carew homestead was the first to be filed. 



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Shaded Walk in Plant Park 

Weather Here and Everywhere — ^A pleasing object of in- 
terest is the huge weather map displayed in the western wall of 
the corridor of the City Hall, at the main entrance on Lafayette 
Street, just across from Court Square. This is a geographical 
map of the United States, with all States and principal cities in- 
dicated. Each morning the temperature and weather conditions 
are marked over each city. It is very interesting to listen to the 
remarks of tourists comparing Tampa's ''summer weather" in 
January with the frigid reports from their home towns. 



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The Bayshore Boulevard extends along the shore of Hills- 
borough Bay, over a mile long, in shape of a huge crescent, from 
the foot of Magnolia Avenue, westerly to the city limits. This is 
one of the most beautiful drives in America, affording an unob- 
structed view of the waters of the bay. The roadway is lined 
with handsome homes w'hich are in the newest part of Tampa's 
residential section. This boulevard is brilliantly illuminated at 
night, with a long line of large pearly gas light globes on orna- 
mental standards, and it is a part of Tampa's "white way." It is 
the favorite automobile thoroughfare in the evening, and is nightly 
crowded with pleasure cars. This boulevard illumination can be 
seen for miles down the bay, and known to the approaching 
steamers as "Tampa's String of Pearls." Take Hyde Park, Bal- 
last Point or Port Tampa cars. 

Tampa's Great White Way — The first thing that impresses 
Tampa visitors at night is its brilliantly lighted "White Ways." 
Probably there is not a better lighted city in the South. There 
are four stretches of these daylight thoroughfares, lighted with 
clusters of four 60-Watt Mazda lamps and surmounted by a larger 
lamp of 100 watts. Franklin Street, Tampa's leading business 
thoroughfare, is a blaze of light at night, with a double row of 
this ornamental lib'hting, and above this are thousands of flashing- 
electric bulbs, announcing the names of firms and the class of 




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Along- the City Bay Shore 

business operated. The city has the distinction of having the 
largest electric American flag in the South as well as the largest 
commercial sign in length. 

The Bayshore Boulevard is lighted in similar manner along 
its entire length and justly deserves the title bestowed upon it of 
"The String of Pearls." The other two "White Ways" are 
Lafayette Street, from its western end to the end of Court Square, 
and Seventh Avenue, through its shopping district in Ybor City, 
which is the Latin quarter of Tampa. 

3irds-eye-view of Tampa — Take the elevator in the City Hall 
and go to the top of the lofty tower. Here the tourist can 
walk around on the balcony and view the city and its surround- 
ings. To the south and southeast is a remarkable view of Tampa 
Bay. Visitors are always welcome. By all means see the city at 
night, and every afternoon during the winter tourist season. 

Public Band Concerts — Every Saturday evening the year round, 
a public band concert is held at the fcand stand in Court Square. 
These concerts are given by the Tampa Municipal Band, an ex- 
cellent musical organization, and are attended by throngs of 
people. They help to make Saturday nights a gala time in Tarnpa, 
and the square is not only crowded with people, but long lines 
of automobiles are packed in the nearby streets in every direction. 

Owing to the large Latin-American population of Tampa, "La 
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hearted intermingling of the races is due much of the general 
spirit of neighborliness and good fellowship which makes the 
newcomer feel welcome, and the old resident realize that no 
other place can ever be home to him. Special concerts are given 
every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon 
here during the tourist season. 

Plant Memorial Fountain — Visitors to Plant Park should no- 
tice the stone fountain opposite to the main entrance to the hotel. 
This was erected after the death of Henry B. Plant its founder, 
and depicts the city's growth and importance as a commercial and 
industrial center and its importance as a port. 

Florida Alligators — A place of unusual interest to the Northern 
tourist, is the huge fountain basin in Court Square where is dis- 
played a happy family of Florida native alligators. Here is Grand- 
father Gator, who was quite an old gentleman when the stately 
Seminoles pitched their tents on the banks of the Hillsborough; 
Grandmother Gator is there, and their children and children'^ 
children, through many generations; the whole Gator family can 
be seen down to the latest little baby Gator. Feeding time is 
around one o'clock — not every day — because alligators eat very 
little at most seasons of the year. It is a good plan to inquire of 
the caretaker when the next "feeding" will be. It's interesting, 
to be present at the feeding. 

City Police Court— In the rear of the second floor of the city 
Hall, convenes at 9 a. m. every week day throughout the year. 
Visitors will find here many interesting cases on the daily docket 
as they come before the city magistrate. 

Police Headquarters adjoin the Police Court, in the rear of the 
second floor of the City Hall. A desk sergeant is in attendance 
nightand day. Here is kept the police records, Rogue's gallery, 
Bertillion finger tip records of criminals, and here is located the 
City Detective Bureau. Any cases of petty thefts or annoyances 
to visitors should be promptly reported to headquarters. Call 
'phone 2196. The city lock-up is across the hall. 




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^ Over 1,000 live Allig-ators on exhibition, from little babies, 

^ newly hatched, to huge monsters. 

^ Baby Alligators Crated for Shipping from $1.00 up. 

^ Florida Alligator Novelties — Stuffed Gators, All Sizes 

^ Complete line of Alligator Goods, Sea Shells, Shell 

^ Novelties, Rattle Snake Skins 

^ SEE THE EDUCATED ALLIGATORS 

^ Exhibited at Every Performance 

^ Shooting the Chutes From a High Slide 

^ DON'T MISS THIS WONDERFUL ATTRACTION. 

^ Take Sulphur Spring Car leaving Tibbets' Corner Every 

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Hillsborough River Near Sulphur Springs 

South Florida Fair — The big South Florida Fair, which for 
many years has been the big event of the winter in Tampa, will 
be held this year from February 16th to the 21st on the Fair 
Grounds, near Plant Park. Many special features will be intro- 
duced this year in the entertainment, and the usual exhibitions 
of live stock, fruits, vegetables and field crops will be shown. 
Band concerts and the usual high-class vaudeville will be offered 
for the entertainment of the thousands who always attend. Horse 
racing and Motor Cycle contests are held daily. 



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M. RESSLER, 

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Bathe in Mid Winter 

TAMPA'S GREATEST 

Batliing Resort 

TEMPERATURE ALL WINTER 76° 



Sulphur Springs Bathing Pool 

A. M FARRELL, Manager 

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DeSoto Oaks — Located in Plant Park, north from the gates at 
Hyde Park Avenue, said to have been one of the camping places 
of Ferdinand DeSoto after he landed on the shores of Florida in 
1539. They are magnificient types and with their long fringes of 
Spanish ni'oss possess a weird and attractive appearance. 

The Cigar Factories — A visit to Tampa is not complete without 
a visit to one of the big cigar factories, which helps to make the 
3,000,000 cigars manufactured in Tampa every work day in the 
year. Visitors are welcome at these places and many a veteran 
smoker sees for the first time how 'his favorite cigar is made. He 
is als'o surprised to find that maybe it is "his favorite brand," for 
the majority of the clear Havana tobacco cigars are made 
in Tampa. The cigar factories are in Ybor City and West Tampa. 
From Court Square take Michigan Avenue or Seventh Avenue 
cars. A chapter on "The Cigar Industry in Tampa" and things to 
interest a visitor will be found in the last pages of the second 
section of this book. 

Spanish Dinners— Don't go away from Tampa without partak- 
ing of a Spanish dinner and the earlier you try one the more of 
them you are likely to enjoy while you are here. The large Latin 




Sulphur Sitrings Bathing' Pool 



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population of the city 
makes possible several 
very good Spanish res- 
taurants. Chicken cata- 
lana, steak, a la Creole, 
cheese and guava paste 
or any of the:ir famous 
mixed salads will be re- 
membered many a day. 

Palmetto Beach — A pic- 
turesque place along the 
shores of Sparkman Bay 
at the extreme edge of 
the city limits, is v\^ell 
worthy of a visit. A 
sandy beach, skirted with 
lofty palmettos adjoining 
a grove of giant oaks, 
afifords a quiet retreat for 
an afternoon's enjoyment. 
The Marconi wireless 
station is here and its 
tall towers reach far into 
the air. A pier and boat 
livery are also here to 
accommodate fishing and 
pleasure parties. Take 
Seventh Avenue cars. 

The Street Called 
Crooked — An object of 
interest to the tourist is 
Harrison Street, to the 
west of Franklin. This 
street for one block con- 
tains three zig-zag angles 
and makes one think of 
a carpenter's saw. Why 
it should be laid out in 
this manner is a question 
asked by many strangers. 
Added to its zig-zag 
crookedness, its general 
style of buildings gives 
the whole the appearance 
of being a street from 

some foreign city set down in the midst of Tampa. 
Hyde Park, Sulphur Springs and Woodlawn cars 
Franklin Street. 

PARKS AND PLAY GROUNDS. 

Tampa has over eighty acres of parks and play grounds, vaued 
.at nearly $3,000,000. 

Plant Park — Extends west from Lafayette Street Bridge, along 




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Lafayette Street to Crescent Place, west from there to the Boule- 
vard, which runs along its wstern side to Cypress Street, from 
where it extends east to the Hillsborough River, along which it 
fronts for an eighth of a mile. It contains over seventy-five acres 
of rich tropical foliage, velvety lawns, orange groves, shady arbors, 
trellises, rose gardens, flower beds and a rare collection of native 
trees and imported shrubbery. Many of the larger trees are 
magnificent in their porportions. 

This beautiful park was included in the purchase from the 




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PORTRAITS 



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Floating Field of Water Hyacintli on the Upper Hillsborough. 

heirs of the late Henry B. Plant, at the time of the purchase of 
the Tampa Bay Hotel by the city, and it is said to be the most 
beautiful municipally owned park in the South. 

Visitors find its winding walks, its shady nooks and well kept 
flower gardens, a place of wonder and enchantment. Take a seat 
near the river bank and watch the great variety of watr craft, 
inhale the fragrance of wonderful sub-tropical plants and listen 
to the singing of mocking birds and other Florida feathered crea- 
tures. It is all so new and different, that the visitor finds it a 
never ending pleasure and soon makes this beautiful place a daily 
habit. 

The park contains the old DeSoto oaks of historical associa- 
tions, Plant Memorial Fountain, Tampa Bay Casino, Tampa Wo- 
mans Club Building. Hyde Park, Union Station, Ballast Point 
and Port Tampa cars pass the gates. 

Court Square — (Already described.) 

DeSoto Park is a popular picnic park, located on Sparkman 



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Moss Covered Oaks Along a Tampa Street. 

Bay, an arm of Hillsborough Bay, and is owned by Tampa Electric 
Co. It is a magnificient grove of giant water Oaks whose branches 
are fringed with native moss. There is a large pavillion, dance 
hall, and numerous seats and swings. On the sandy beach is a 
dock where boats can be rented for sailing and fishing. Here are 
held a great number of picnics by the Latin speaking population 
of the city. Take Seventh Avenue cars. 

Macfarlane Park — A new city park, recently laid out in the 
midst of a big real esta*-e developing proposition to the extreme 
northwestern part of West Tampa. Its location is on Laurel 

Street between . , 

Roosevelt and 
Lincoln Ave- 
nues. Here is a 
stand, a 

play ground 
ball field 

golf links. 
Take Union Sta- 
tion car going 
west. 

Highland Park 
— A beautiful 
square in Tampa 
H e i g h t s, c u t 

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from Ross to Frances Avenue, noted for its beautiful trees. Take 
Michigan Avenue or Sulphur Springs cars. 

Playgrounds — Tampa has three playgrounds. The first was 
built in the city on Nineteenth Street between Third and Fourth 
Avenues and was opened July, 1913, at a cost of $32,500. Play- 
grounds are also located on Eleventh Avenue, near Twelfth Street 
and on Fifteenth Avenue, between Twentieth and Twenty-first 
Streets. 

NEARBY POINTS OF INTEREST. 

Sulphur Springs — About six miles north of the city, fronting 
the Hillsborough River, is located Sulphur Springs Park, of espe- 
cial interest to visitors to this section. Here is found the famous 
"Stomawa" mineral well, the name being of Seminole Indian origin 
and meaning Stomach Water. It is claimed the effect of the 
water is identical with that of the Kissingen Springs of Kissingen, 
Germany, the analysis showing but slight difference. In the days 
of the Seminole supremacy, the spring was visited yearly by 
thousands of Indians who oame from the country both north and 
south of Tampa to drink the water and regain their health. Now, 
the spring is visited by. thousands of Americans each year. The 
water is slightly alkaline and has a saltine taste. The enormous 
sulphur spring, from which the park takes its name, is another 
feature of intense interest. This spring is confined in a large con- 
crete basin, 125 by 135 feet in dimensions. The spring has an 
eight and one-half foot fall, a flow of 30,000 gallons per minute, or 
43,200,000 gallons every 24 hours. This large spring is used for 
bathing, and ample bath house accommodations are provided. 
Spring boards, diving towers and swinging ropes afford addi- 
tional bathing pleasures. The tourist can bathe here in mid-winter 
with perfect comfort and go home and boast of the experience. 

The winter temperature of the water rarely gets below 76 
degrees, which is not so much colder than the ocean in August at 
Atlantic Coast resorts. 

The grounds surronding the springs are interesting for their 
natural tropical growth. The amusement provided consists of a 
dancing pavilion,, cafe, refreshment stands, giant diving tower, 
boating and canoe livery, alligator farm, bath houses, and -many 
minor attractions. , The Alligator Farm is one of the largest in 
Florida and over 1,000 live alligators are on exhibition. The canoe 
livery, a new institution is a branch of one of the largest canoe 
renting liAreries on the Great Lakes. Canoeing is meeting with 
popular favor in Tampa, and this particular part of the Hills- 
borough affords an ideal place for its enjoyment. 

The ride to Sulphur Springs takes the visitor through one of 
the city's most rapidly growing bungalow sections. Farther out 
the line goes through several large orange groves. Take Sulphur 
Springs car. 

Ballast Point Park — One of the first places the tourist should 
visit is this popular picnic and amusement park. Situated along 
the shore of Hillsborough Bay, about four and one-half miles 
southwest of the city. Its many attractions offer a delig^htful 
day's outing. The park contains a varied assortment of beautiful 



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trees of rare shrubbery, sub-tropical fruits and grassy lawns, 
walks, arbors, fountains and- rustic trellises invite your attention 

at every turn; and 

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water front is a j 

board walk with j 

seats. An excellent 

view of the bathing 

beach and the rip_ 

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Two City Schools. 

In the grounds 
is a well equipped 
menagerie, where 
native Florida an- 
imals can be seen. 
The youngsters 
can find amuse- 
ment at the mon- 
k e y cage, and 
sleek coated deer are ready to make friends with all. 

Various attractions are offered along the bay shore board 
walk for the entertainment of both young and old, and at night 
this walk, as well as the grounds are brilliantly lighted with 
many bulbs of electricity, and present a veritable fairyland of 
multi-colored lights. 

Salt water bathing is one of the main attractions, and a long 
pier, equipped with diving boards and sliding chutes extends far 
out into the bay. Ample bath house accommodations are offered 
where bathing suits ar for hire. A large two story casino, open 
air dance hall, restaurant and cafe, and theatre are regular features. 
Also a well equipped managerie, box ball games, shooting gallery, 
photo gallery and other amusements are in the park. Boats can 
be rented at the casino wharf, as well as bait and fishing tackle. 
Good trout and other fishing grounds are within a short distance 
oi the dock. The park contains about sixteen acres, and is the 
property of the Tampa Electric Co. Take Ballast Point car. 

Port Tampa — About nine miles southeast of the city, on Old 
Tampa Bay, is located Port Tampa, a town of about 1,900 popula- 
tion, the terminus of the Atlantic Coast Line and site of extensive 
railroad yards, oil storage tanks and phosphate elevators. The 
shipping facilities consist of 11,000 feet of docks upon whic'h are 
warehouses of immnse capacity, steamship and railroad offices. 



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Key West Craw Fish, Pompano, Stone Crabs, 
Spanish Mackerel and all Sea Food Specialties 

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Ships from every port in the world call at Port Tampa, some of 
the largest steamers, barges and scl-ojners making this port and 
take on or disciharge cargoes. The flags of many nations can be 
seen floating at the different mastheads of these mighty leviathan 
burden bearers of the seas. Before the deepening of the Tampa 
ship channel,- Port Tampa was the port of entry for all ocean 
going vessels. A visit to Port Tampa docks is well worth while. 
Take Atlantic Coast Line train from Union Station of Port Tampa 
trolley. The latter means a long walk at the other end, but every 
step of it is full of interest. 

Palma Ceia Springs — About three miles from the city on Hills- 
borougih Bay, is located the mineral springs of Palma Ceia, which 
have many prominent sponsors for the beneficial effects to te de- 
rived from the use of the water. The springs are contained, in a 
cement l)asin in which bathing can be enjoyed. Take Ballast Point 
or Port Tampa cars. 

Hillsborough Orange Groves — The first thing a tourist wants 
to see in this land of fruits and flowers is a real Florida orange 
grove. Take a Sulphur Springs car, which goes directly through 
the center of two large groves, wihere during the season the 
golden fruit may be seen hanging from the 'branches of the trees. 
The car also passes groves of grapefruit and other citrus fruits. 

Rocky Point — A popular picnic ground fronts directly on Old 
Tampa Bay. There are no accommodations and can only be 
reached by automobile but is well worth a trip. The shore, unlike 
the usual sandy beaches, is rocky and presents an entirely dif- 
ferent appearance. The beach has a wonderful back ground of 
magnificent mossjiung oak and tropical foliage of every descrip- 
tion. Oyster beds and good fishing- only a short distance off 
shore. The beach is about a mile beyond the Rocky Point 
Golf Club. 

Sunset Beach — A bathing beach on the shore of Old Tampa 
Bay, accommodations for bathers, pavilion, etc. Bus line leaves 
Lafayette and Tampa streets for the Beach. 




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DeSoto Oak, in Plant Park 



or Port Tampa car, and connect with Sunset Beach Bus Line to 
beach. 

Espiritu Santo — Situated near the northern end of Pinellas- 
peninsular, almost directly west of Tampa and northwest of Port 
Tampa. It is claimed to be the landing place of Ferdinand De- 
Soto in his tour of discovery and conquest of Florida in 1539. 
This fresh water spring was said to originally spout up out of 
the waters of the bay and is probably what attracted DeSoto's 
band to make their landing here. The springs stand today off 
shore in a large cemented basin. Many benefits are claimed for 
the waters. Green Springs has several hotels and boarding houses. 
Reached by automobile or by Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad. 

Alligator Farm — Sulphur Springs Park contains a rare collec- 
tion of Florida alligators of all ages and sizes. Here are grand 
monsters as well as baby alligators lately hatched. This is one 
of the largest 'gator farms in Florida and the live alligators are for 
sale. There are over 1,000 alligators on exhibition. It's a rare 
sight at feeding time. Take Sulphur Springs car. 

Goldstein's !PooI — A huge, open air natatorium, containing two 
swimming and bathing pools. These pools are made of solid con- 
crete, and are liberally patronized the year round. Northern 
visitors who have left wintery climes are delighted at the prospect 
of a winter bath in open air with bright skies overhead and sum- 



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Good Tilings to Eat 

LUNCHES, STEAKS, SEAFOOD SPECIALTIES 

You Meet Your Friends at Our Soda Fountain 

FULL LINE OF CIGARS 

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mer weather about them. The pools are fitted with sliding chutes 
and spring boards. Take Sulphur Springs car. 

Picnic Island— Across a narrow lagoon from Port Tampa. This 
place in former years was a well known amusement park, where 
picnics and excursions were held, but with the 'building of nearby 
parks, it has fallen into disuse. The ruins of an open air dancing 
pavilion and bath house, overgrown with wild tropical foliage 
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Six Mile Creek^ — 'A beautiful little river, empties its waters irl\ 
upper Sparkman Bay nearly opposite \o Palmetto Beach. Auto- 
ists crossing this stream over the Palm River bridge, catch ' a 
glimpse of its beautiful palmetto lined shores. But to see the 
full beauty of its many winding curves and explore its forest jun- 
gles, the visitor must take a boat trip over its waters. Take a 
motor trip from the city or row over from Palmetto Beach, which 
is- about a mile across the bay. There is good fishing and a day's 
outing can be spent here to good advantage. 

The Dam — By all means take a trolly trip to the upper Hills- 
borough River and see the b g dam with its spillway and rushing, 
foaming waters. The water power is used by the Tampa Electric 
Co. to operate its supplementary power house at this point. There 
is good fishing up the river. The beauti'ul Hillsborough river 
just below the dam flows through a forest of giant water oaks 
whose mighty boughs are literally covered witti hanging moss, 
which floats on the breeze like wreaths of smoky vapor. Well 
defined trails lead beneath these mighty trees and lead along the 
river's bank. A visit here for a real forest picnic is very much 
worth the tourist's time. Take any Ybor City car, transfer to 
Ross Avenue car and change to a River car to the dam. 

Lake Thcnotosassa — Fifteen miles to the northeast of Tampa 
lies Lake Thonotosassa, nestled in a section of beautiful orange 
groves. The lake is a magnificent body of water, five iniles in 
length, the shores of which abound in delightful camp sites. The 




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The New Carnegie Library 

Atlantic Coast Line operates an afternoon train to the lake. By- 
auto follow the Plant City road to Sefifner and turn north for four 
miles to the lake. There is excellent fresh water fishing-. 

SPORTS AND OUTDOOR PASTIMES. 

No city in America, with its all the year sunshine and great 
appeal to the out-of-doors, offers better inducements for open air 
sports than is found in Tampa. 

Plant Field— Owned by the city, with entrances on North 
Brevard Street aand the Boulevard, is an athletic field containing 
about ten acres. It has a baseball diamond, football field and a 
half mile track. There is a commodious grandstand, seating 3,000 
persons and field bleachers to accommodate 2,000 more. Here are 
held baseball, football and track events, with race meets from time 
to time during the winter. The South Florida Fair Association 
buildings are also on these grounds, where is held their annual 
exhibition in February (omitted in 1918). The State armory of 
Companies G and H of the Florida National Guard is also on the 
Grounds. Take Union Station car going west and get off at 
Brevard Street. 

Public Tennis Courts — In Plant Park, in the rear of the Tourist 
Club Play grounds, west of the Tampa Bay Hotel. Visitors must 
furnish their own nets, rackets and balls and are welcome to enjoy 
the courts. Take Union Station (going west), Hyde Park, Bal- 
last Point or Port Tampa cars to Park gates. 

Tourists' Play Grounds — (Already described under Tourist 
Club.^ 

Golf — Tampa's two superior golf clubs afford the visiting en- 
thusiastis ample opportunity to gratify every desire. A special 
chapter on this subject appears later on in this section. 

Launches — The tourists who enjoys the out-of-doors should 
take a trip in a launch over the rippling waters of the bay or on a 
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the nearby streams. Launches can be rented by the hour, day 
or season. 

Fishing — Don't leave Tampa without at least one day's fishing. 
If you are a "Fishing Fan," and want real sport, here is tbe 
place to have it. Florida waters are teaming with fish, and some 
of the fishing grounds near Tampa are the best in the State. 

Mackerel, trout king fish, grouper, red fish, grunt, amberjack, 
angel fish, snapper and tarpon, the latter the gamest fish in Amer- 
ican waters, can all be had for the trouble of catching them. The 
delights to the fisherman in Tampa waters will be described in a 
special chapter. 

Canoes — The visitor who enjoys this popular form of amuse- 
ment, who wants to float along over the placid waters of the 
beautiful Hillsborough River or paddle to its head waters on a 
voyage of discovery, enjoying its beautiful sub-tropical beauty, 
should take a trolley to Sulphur Springs, where he can rent a 
canoe 'by the hour or for the day. The river has its most beau- 
tiful turns and curves at this point. 

Automobiles — Visitors marvel at the great number of auto- 
mobiles in Tampa and soon contract the habit of auto riding. 
Tampa's paved streets, nearby good roads and beautiful Bayshore 
Boulevard offer a delightful temptation. Numerous city auto 
liveries are equipped with comfortable cars and at moderate 
ctiarges. 

Horse Racing — The big South Florida Fair, which will be held 
at the Fair Grounds from Feb. 16 to 21, will offer in addition to 
the many wonderful agri- 
cultural and other exhib- 
its, a program of horse 
racing on each day of the 
big Fair. Some of the 
very best race horses 
on the Southern racing 
(Circuit will compete for 
the usual generous purses 
offered by the Fair Asso- 
ciation. 

The Fair was not held 
in 1918 on account of the 
war, but was resumed in 
1919 as one of the big 
attractions of the winter, 
and tourists from all over 
South Florida can count 
on a week of real events. 
The attractions promise 
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CITY CHURCHES 

Sacred Heart Church is the most imposing church edifice in the 
city, and is said to 'be the most beautiful Catholic church south of 
Washington, D. C. Visitors are astonished at its wonderful in- 
terior, and it is doubtful if another church in America is more 
impressive in appearance. Its fine marble altars, many frescoed 
arches and wonderful memorial windows awes the beholder into a 
sense of nearness to Him whom the building was consecrated. 

This magnificent edifice was dedicated on Jan. 15, 1905 by Rev. 
Wm. J. Kenney, bishop, of St. Augustine. It seats nearly 2,000, and 
has cost to date over $400,000. With the increase in prices of build- 
ing materials and labor, 
the building is valued 
today at three-quarters 
of a million dollars. 
The main altar cost 
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the altar rail cost $5,200 
more, which were both 
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■church is on Florida Avenue, one block north of Court Square, and 
IS one of the most beautiful pieces of church archiecture in the 
whole South. 

It is one of the architectual show places of the city and is 
visited every year 'by thousands of winter tourists, irrespective of 

•creed or religious denomination. Visitors are welcome at all times, 
as the building is always open to the public and a visit here is 

very much' worth while. 

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Adventlst. 

First Seventh Day Church — 
Florida Ave., corner Palmetto 

Avenue. 
Second Adventisit — 311 East 

Francis Avenue. 

Baptist. 
Buffalo Avenue Baptist Mission 

— Buffalo Ave., near Nebraska 

Avenue. 
Clark Memorial Church — 1909 

Fifteenth Street. 
Concord Church — Palmetto 

-Beach. 
El Bethel Church — Campahella 

Ave., corner 20th Ave. 
First Church — Lafayette St., 

corner Hyde Park Ave. 
Palm Ave. Church — 1809 Florida 

Ave. 
Oak Park Baptist Mission — Oak 

Park. 
Tenth Ave. Church — lOith Ave., 

corner 32nd Street. 
First Baptist Mission — Jefferson 

Street, near Bell. 
West Side Mission — corner Cy- 
press and 12th Avenue, West 

Tampa. 

Christian. 

Church of Christ — 907 20th Ave. 
First Christian Church — Marion 

St., corner Twig'gs St. 
Cliristian Science. 
First Church of Christ, Scientist 

— Henderson and Florida Aves. 
Society of Christ, Scientist — K 

of P. Hall, Lafayette and 

Morgan Streets. 

Con^regrational 
.First Church — 2201 Florida Ave. 
Cuban Congregational — 843 

Green St., West Tampa. 
Hyde Park Congregational — 

Suburb Beautiful. 
Union Congregational — 484 

Green St., West Tampa. 
Spiscopal. 
St. John's-By-the-Sea — 906 South 

Orleans Ave. 
St. Andrews — 505 Marion St. 
House of Prayer — 2405 Talia- 
ferro St. 

Jevrlsli. 

Congregation Schaarai Zedek — 
1209 Florida Ave. 

Congregation Rodolph Shalem — 

(Othordox) 311 E. Palm Ave. 

liUtlieran. 

Zion German-American Evange- 
lical — 502 Tyler. 

Metliodist. 

Cuban M. E. Church — 16th St. 

and 12th Ave. 
First Church — 1001 Florida Ave. 
Highland Ave. Church Corner 

Gladys St. and Highland Ave. 
Hyde Park Church — 522 Piatt St. 
Iglesia M E. Church — 2403 Co- 

rinne. 



Italian M. B. Church — 1615 9th 
Ave. 

Selma Ave. M. B. Church — corner 
Nebraska and Selma Aves. 

Tampa Heights M. B. Church — 
Corner Ross and Central Aves. 
Presbyterian. 

Associated Reformed Presbyter- 
ian — 2305 Tamna St. 

First Church — 412 Zack St. 

Hyde Park Presbyterian — corner 
Oregon and Inman Sts. 

Seminole Heights Church — Flor- 
ida and Commanche Aves. 

Tampa Heights — Corner Lamar 
and Palm Aves. 

United Bretliren. 

Nebraska and Dandridge Aves, 
Roman Catholic. 

The Church of Our Lady of 
Mercy— 17th St. and 10th Ave. 

Sacred Heart Church Corner 

Florida Ave. and Twiggs St. 

St. Joseph Church — Corner Wal- 
nut Street and Francis Ave., 
West Tampa. 

St. Peters Claver's Church — 1405- 
Governor St. 

COLORED CHURCHES. 

Baptist. 

Bethel Church — 1215 Jefferson St. 
Beulah Church — 'i'09 Harrison 

St. 
Mt. Mariah Primitive — 1228 Ne- 
braska Ave. 
Mt. Olive — 28th St., corner 34th 

Ave. 
New iSelma Primitive- — -Corner 

2nd Ave. and Blanch St. 
Primitive — 34th St., corner 3rd 

Ave. 
St. John's — 905 Governor. 
St. Matthews — 27th St. and 27th 

Ave. 
St. Stephens — 1219 Long Emory 

St. 
Tabernacle — 1010 Highland Ave. 

Episcopal. 
St. James Church — 1307 Lamar 

Ave. 

Methodist. 

Allen Temple — 1116 B. Scott St. 

Bowman Church- — -608 Constant 
St. 

Mt. Olive A. M. E. — LaSalle,. 
corner 20th Ave., West Tampa. 

Macedonia M. B. — 1309 N. A. St. 

Mt. Carmel A. M. B. — 3701 Flor_ 
ida Ave. 

Mt. Sinai — Harrison St. and Ne- 
braska Ave. 

Mt. Zion A .M. B. — Corner 14ith 
■ Ave. and 26th St. 

Mt. Zion A. M. B. Church— 113 
S. Dakota Ave. 

St. Paul Church — 1101 Marion St. 

Selma A. M. E. — 2 602 12th Ave. 

Zion A. M. E. — 212 N. Oregon 
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PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETIES. 

Y. M. C. A. — Was organized in Tampa Aug. 21, 1907. The as- 
sociation is located in their handsome five story brick and granite 
building at Florida Avenue and Zack Street. It has a well equip- 
ped gymnasium, swrimming pool, reading room and library. Two 
floors of the entire building is devoted to dormitory space and 
excellent accommodations are offered at reasonable prices. Var- 
ious educational classes for young men and boys are under the 
charge of competent teachers, and physical instructors attend to 
athletics. The Y. M. C. A. is represented in football, baseball, 
basketball and track events. A summer camp is also maintained 
for boys and young men. The building is two blocks north of 
Court Square on Florida Avenue. 

Young Woman's C. A. — Had its organization in Tampa, Fe'b. 7, 
1913, and recently purchased a home at the corner of Morgan 
and Madison Streets, where temporary headquarters are estab- 
lished. Here, and in a neighboring building, are dormitories, 
reading rooms and library. A well equipped gymnasium and 
basketball court afford athletic exercise, and a competent director 
is in charge. The Y. W. C. A. is working hard to raise funds to 
erect a modern building, and a substantial sum is already in their 
treasury. Educational classes in which are taken up various sub- 
jects, numerous social affairs, and a well patronized cafeteria are 
among the association's activities. A library of nearly 1,500 vol- 
umes is one of their assets. Take Union Station car east. 

Salvation Army — A spacious new brick building at the corner 
of Harrison and Tampa Streets is the home of the Tampa Salva- 
tion Army. The building is a credit to the organization. The 
Army is doing good work in the city, and well deserves the pat- 
ronage of every charitable visitor. 

College of the Sacred Heart — Corner Madison Street and 
Florida Avenue, is one of the most imposing buildings in the city, 
and is in a flourishing condition. 

This educational institution had its beginning Sept. 11, 1899, 
and is one of a chain of colleges under the management of Jesuit 
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thoroughly imbued both with the soundest principles of the high- 
est morality and teachings which produce a refined and finished 
education. 

The system brought such an increase of patronage that quar- 
ters were sought in the more commodious building, the old St. 
Louis Church. The club rooms were, therefore, abandoned as 
class rooms. 

On May 29, 1915, the edifice which now stands at the corner 
of Madison Street and Florida Avenue was begun. This structure, 
a credit to the city of Tampa, is only a section of a future build- 
ing which will extend around the square almost to the corner of 
Twiggs and Marion Streets. The present building exhausted the 
resources on hand and represents an outlay of $45,000, a sum of 
money contributed by the citizens of Tampa of every denomina- 
tion and by friends residing outside of the city. The late Dr. 
Morales, of Havana, Cuba, deserves special mention. His con- 
tribution in real estate brought $35,000. 

Private Schools — Centro Espanol School, 1536 Seventh Avenue; 
Convent of the Holy Names, Twiggs Street, corner of Morgan; 
English Classical School, 705 Swann Avenue; Free Clinic Night 
School, 1513 Ninth Avenue; Hoover School, 935 Twelfth Avenue; 
Model Kindergarten, 804 Horatio Street; Sacred Heart College, 
Florida Avenue, corner Twiggs Street; St. Benedicts School (col- 
ored). Twentieth Street, corner Michigan Avenue; St. Joseph's 
Convent, 1704 Eleventh Avenue; St. Joseph's School, 1518 Seventh 
Avenue; St. Peter's Claver School 1401 Governor Street; Tampa 
Business College, Grand Central Avenue, corner Edison Street; 
Business University of Tampa. Grand Theatre building. 

TAMPA PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

The city of Tampa has a collection of school 'buildings, that 
would do credit to a city three times its size. There are twenty 
in number and the constant increase in population is already de- 
manding additional ones. Eight new buildings have been added 
in the past two years. 

The newest and one of the best of the new school buildings is 
the James Madison Junior High School on Madison Street, be- 
tween Pierce and Jefferson Streets. It is built of red brick with 
gray stone trimmings and is substantial and commodious. It is 
thoroughly fireproof, has iron stairways and is equipped with 
elevators. The building has a large auditorium with inclined floor 
and roomy platform. This school building is equipped with a 
swimming pool in the basement. The building with equipment 
cost over $36,000. 

The different city schools and their locations are as follows: 

A. L. Cuesta School — Corner Pine and Cleveland Streets, West 
Tampa. 

Benjamin Primary School — Twentieth St., cor. St John's Ave, 

Buffalo Avenue School — 705 East Buffalo Avenue. 

Drew Primary School — ^Corner Howard and Drew Streets. 

East Tampa Junior High — Palmetto Beach. 

Ellinger City School — Willow Avenue at LaSalle Street. 

Gary School — Tenth Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street. 

George Washington Junior High — Michigan Avenue and Mit- 
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Gorrie School — Leon Street, corner Boulevard. 

Henry Mitchell Elementary School — Bungalow Park and Cleve- 
land Street. 

Hillsborough High School — Highland and Euclid Avenues. 

James Madison Junior High — Madison and Pierce Streets. 

Robert E. Lee Grammar — 301 East Michigan Avenue. 

Oak Park Public School— Oak Park. 

Seminole Heights School — Corner Central and Hanna Streets. 

Thomas Jefferson Elimentary — Henderson and Jefferson Sts. 

Woodrow Wilson Junior High — Swan Street and Edison Ave- 
nue. 

Ybor City School— Fourteenth Street and Fifteenth Avenue. 

Colored Schools. 

Caesar Street Grammar — Caesar and Finley Streets. 
Cottage Hill — Jackson Heights. 
Gilchrist High School — Jackson Heights. 
Harlem Academy — 510 East Harrison Street. 
Lenox High School — Thirty-seventh Avenue and Twenty- 
eighth Street. 

Robles Pond School — Florida Avenue and Virginia Street. 
West Hyde Park — 317 South Dakota Avenue. 




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West Tampa School No. 2 — Seventeenth Avenue and Green 
Street. 

HOSPITALS AND HOMES. 

Tampa's sick and helpless are amply taken care of in the splen- 
didly equipped modern hospitals and sanitariums provided for by 
public and private enterprise. 

Centre Austriano Sanatorium — At Jackson Street and Ola Ave- 
nue, is a beautiful building of modern construction. It stands in 
spacious grounds and is amply equipped with the most modern 
appliances for the aid to health and comfort of its patients. It 
was built in 1914 by the Centro Asturiano Club of Tampa, at a cost 
Oi over $30,000 for the use of its members, but other patients are 
accepted in its pay departments. Dr. G. H. Altree is in charge 
with three able assistants. The institution maintains forty-five 
beds and is open to visitors. 

Centro Espanol Sanatorium — On the Bayshore Boulevard, 
about three and one-half miles from the city. It is a commanding 
brick and gray stone structure, with lofty columned porches 
and surrounded by spacious lawns and flower beds. Erected in 
1904 by the Centro Espanol Club of Tampa, at a cost of over 
$85,000, for the exclusive use of its own members. It is equipped 
with the most modern apparatus. It is said to be one of the best 
institutions of its kind in South Florida. Dr. Alfonso Sanchez is 
superintendent, who is assisted by a corps of three physicians and 
surgeons. There are fifty-two private beds in the sanatorium. The 
building is open to visitors and can be reached by both Ballast 
Point and Port Tampa cars. 

Clara Frye Hospital — An institution for colored people; opened 
in 1900, and presided over by Clara IFrye, a colored woman, who 
was the founder. It is located at 1615 Lamar Avenue. It has 
forty beds. The institution is a charity one and is governed by a 
board of directors. 

Gordon Keller Memorial Hospital — The city hospital, known 
as the Gordon Keller Memorial Hospital, is at 302 North Boule- 
vard. It is a city institution and derives its support from the 
city treasury. Here are taken all emergency cases, victims of ac- 
cident and sudden illness. Private patients can enter at any time. 
Hours for visitors are from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. The hospital is 
equipped with modern appliances and leading physicians in the 
city take many private cases there. A training school for nurses 
is maintained in the institution. _ 

Plant Park Infirmary — Located on the eastern side of the park, 
opposite Crescent Place, is a private hospital. It is a well equip- 
ped institution and many private cases are treated here annually. 
A training school for nurses is maintained. 

Other Private Hospitals — Isolation Hospital, Main Street, north 
of Ray Street; Medical Aid Fraternity, 311 East Ross Avenue; 
Tampa Heights Sanitarium, 1805 Florida Avenue; Tampa Sani- 
tarium, Central Avenue and Jackson Street. 

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sectarian institution, maintains a home for homeless children. It 
receives $150 per annum from the county and $125 from the city. 
The balance of its income is received from donations and annual 
subscriptions from its members. It was organized about 25 years 
ago and has been in its present location since 1902, which it owns. 
Expenses of up-keep to the property is raised by an annual tag day. 
The home has accommodations for 75 children. In the past 
seven years over 900 children have passed through the home as a 
direct result of the divorce court. The home is open to visitors. 

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Those who enter pay $300 for alife membership into the 
establishment. At present there are 14 inmates, 12 of whom are 
women, all of them are over 70 years of age. 

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 

Centre Asturiano Club — At Nebraska and Ninth Avenues is 
probably the most beautiful clubhouse in the city, and one of 
the finest in the South. It cost, with its furnishings, $140, 000. This 
is one of the oldest and largest of the Latin clubs. Its members 
enjoy many dances, entertainments and theatricals offered for 
their entertainment, together with many varied social diversions. 
The club has a well equipped gymnasium, natatorium and serves 
many bancjuets and dinners to its members. A season of grand 
opera is held here annually. 

Its members also are taken care of in case of illness. The Cen- 
tro Asturiano maintains a private sanitarium of their own, which 
is modernly equipped with every hospital appliance. 

Centre Espanol Club — At 1536 Seventh Avenue, occupies a brick 
and stone club house of magnificent proportions where its large 
mebership enjoy many hours of social recreation and entertain- 
ment. Balls, concerts and various form of theatricals are fre- 
quently arranged. Social and entertainment committees keep their 
members actively interested in the life of the club, and it is one of 
the most active of the Latin orginazations in the city. Athletics, 
pool and billiards, and social games occupy a lot of the members' 
attention, and a Saturday night attendance at the checkers and 
chess games is always crowded. The Centro Espanol maintains 
benevolent and protective features and looks after its members in 
times of sickness and adversity. The club has a private sanatorium 
on the Bayshore Boulevard for the use of its members, which is 
one of the show places along the water front. Take Seventh Ave. 
nue or Union Station Car. 

Centro Espanol de West Tampa — Corner Howard Avenue and 
Cherry Street, is another large Spanish Club, where its members 
meet to enjoy athletics, music and social enjoyment. The building 
is one of the largest of the Latin clubs, and is equipped 'with 
gymnasium, auditorium and social clubs. 

Circulo Cubano — (Cuban Club of Tampa) at Tenth Avenue and 
Fourteenth Street, has over 3,000 members, and is the largest 
Latin club in the city. Its handsome new club house cost $60,000. 
It was organized in 1900, and provides for sick and death benefits. 
It takes care of casses of illness and accident at Plant Park In- 
firmary. 

The new building will be equipped with a large auditorium, 
where entertainments, operas and so forth will be held; a gymnas- 
ium, social hall, swimming pool and bowling alley is arranged for. 

It also maintains a private school for instruction to children of 
its members as well as courses of instruction in English for the 
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Knights of Pythias — Have their home in Pythian Castle, a sub- 
stantial red brick building of striking apearance, at the corner of 
Lafayette and Morgan Streets. The building is new and houses 
the different K. of P. lodges in the city where all hold their 
meetings. The members enjoy many social privileges and the 
building is equipped with billiard and pool ta'bles and social halls. 
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L'Unione Italiano — (Italian Club,) at Seventh Avenue and 
Eighteenth Street, completed in 1918, one of the finest club houses 
in Tampa, and cost, including furnishings, nearly $95,000. It has 
1,000 members, and is one of the strongest social organizations in 
the city. The club provides for sick and social benefits, and at 
the death of any of its members, each one is assessed $1.00, which 
is given to the family of the deceased. 

The new home contains a gymnasium, bowling alleys, read- 
ing rooms, library, social halls and a beautiful auditorium, where 
dramatic entertainments and musical afifairs are held. The club 
maintains a regular season of grand opera, and has its own dra- 
matic club which presents plays twice each month in Italian and 
English. 

Elks Club— The beautiful home of Tampa Lodge No. 708, B. P. 
O. Elks, at the corner of Madison Street and Florida Avenue, is 
one of the most attractive club buildings in the city. It is built of 
red brick with marble trimmings, and cost, with its fittings, nearly 
$125,000. The Elks are astrong organization in the city, and many 
social affairs are held here. The beautiful club house is one of 
the best equipped in the South. 

Masonic Home — Tampa Masons meet at their comfortable and 
unpretentious home building at the northwest corner of Lafayette 
and Morgan Streets. Wheat the building lacks in modern archi- 
tecture is more than made up in the beautiful tropical appearance 
of the grounds. Many social affairs are held here, and it is 
rumored that before very long Tampa will see a massive temple 
dedicated to Free Masonry on the site of the present home. 

Woman's Club of Tampa — Meets in its own building in Plant 
Park, and is very active in affairs condusive to the betterment of 
womanhood, and is a part of the National Federation of Wowan's 
Clubs. 




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Rotary Club — Is one of the city's most active organizations, 
and is ever alive to the promotion of things 
to benefit Tampa. Many public improve- 
ments have been secured through the efforts 
of this body of men who number its mem- 
bers from every walk in life. While the club 
is an active in big improvements, yet it has its 
liverlier moments, and stages some of the gay- 
ets social events of any organipation in the 
city. Regular weekly luncheons are held by 
the club. 

Sunset Club — A rather unusual organiza- 
tion , meets at the City Council Chamber every Stauday afternoon. 
Boys, young men and men of middle age are denied membership, 
and one has to reach the age of seventy years before he is allowed 
to join. The club has a large membership, and has very interest- 
ing meetings to which the public is allowed to attend. 

The Kiwanis Club — Organized this year, is becoming one of 
the most active in the city. Kiwanis stands for "service, cooper- 
ation and good fellowship," and its members, who are numbered 
from the best business and professional men in town, appear to 
be living up to their three things to the letter of 
their creed. The club now has 116 members and 
is growing every month. The Kiwanis Club holds 
regular weekly luncheons at the Hotel Hillsboro 
every Wednesday and discuss improvements for the 
city of Tampa. Some of the things Kiwanis is 
working on is a project to buy the big sandy is- 
land at the mouth of the Hillsborough river and convert it into 
a public play ground and amusement park. Another is to estab- 
lish a bigger and more elaborate play ground for winter vistors. 

The social side of the club's life has been shown in various 
ways which combine charity with a general good time. Such things 
as base ball games, minstrel shows, "old hoss" sales, are a few of 
the things they have staged in the short life of the organization. 
The monies received from their amusements have been given to 
Old People's Home, Children's Home and the Empty Stocking 
Fund. 

New and bigger things are planned for next year. 

Kiwanis is one of the newer civic and social organizations in 
the country, and the local club is likely to become one of the 
largest and strongest of the South. 

Other Club Organizations — Associated Charities, 803 Florida 
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Manufacturers Association, First National Bank Building; Hills- 
borough Anti-Tuberculosis Association, dispensary, 719^ Florida 
Avenue; Hillsborough County Humane Society, 1704 Florida Ave.; 
Hillsborough Protective Association, 1533 Seventh Avenue; La 
Union Marti Maceo, 1005 Sixth Avenue; Luz De Caballero, 316^ 
Seventh Avenue; Merchants and Manufacturers Association, 316J^ 
Franklin; Palmetto Beach Marine Club; Societe M. S. Italia, 1622 
Eight Avenue ;South Florida Fair and Gasparilla Carnival Asso- 
ciation;Tampa Builders Exchange, 713^ Franklin Street; Tampa 
Merchants Association, 715J4 Franklin Street; Tampa Realtors 
Board, City Hall; Underwriters Clearing House Association, First 
National Bank Building; University Club, 314 West Lafayette St.; 
United Confederate Veterans, Womans Relief Corps No. 5, Joe 
Wheeler Camp No. 2, U. S. Spanish War Veterans, Terry Post 
No. 20, G. A. R., 909^ Franklin Street. 

COUNTRY CLUBS. 

Tampa Yacht and Country Club — One of the oldest social out 
door clubs of Tampa, and numbers as its members many of 
Tampa's best people. The club house and grounds adjoin Ballast 
Point Park, and is valued at $50,000. The club house cost when 
completed $20,000 to build. Here is a private dock and pier. The 
grounds are well laid out and contain many beautiful trees and 
tropical plants. Reached by Port Tampa cars. 

Rocky Poiiit Golf Club — At a distance of seven miels from the 
city, near the shore line of Old Tampa Bay on Grand Central 
drive. An 18-hole golf course with club house and grounds valued 
at $50,000. Many events are held the year round. 

Palma Ceia Golf Club — A new organization with over 200 char- 
ter members, and a new $30,000 club house with $4,000 worth of 
furnishings, an 18-hole course, which is said to be the finest in the 
State. Reached by Ballast Point or Port Tampa cars. 



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in Florida and stay there all winter long, and in the early spring 
greet the same train crew and go straight back home again, and 
consequently miss some of the real beauties of Florida. 

To come here without seeing some of Florida's beautiful water- 
ways and miss the wonderful sub-tropical scenery along their 
banks, is the wrong way to see Florida. 

Railroads often pass through the most uninteresting places,, 
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close to nature and see its many wonderful beauties. See the 
many streams of blue silver, wending their graceful lines through 
real forests, amid mighty trees or feathery palms; and fringed 
with tangles of luxuriant verdure, such as will delight your heart 
and please your eye. 

THE PICTURESQUE ST. JOHNS 

Who can picture the beauties of the wonderful St. Johns? 
This gracefully winding, palm-lined river is the only one in the 
whole United States that flows north. Who can adequately de- 
scribe its tranquil loveliness, its tropical vistas and its natural 
scenic grandeur? Its whole general contour with the wild masses 
of forest and shrubbery, through which it flows, hold you spell- 
bound in admiration. 

Nowhere in" America "is there a trip like this. Its wonders have 
been written in pages jOf„,igiowing tributes and its beauties have 
been told in as rnany stories of rhetorical effusions. Poets have 
versed its praises and even stoics have enthused lover it. 

• Its every curve is a new version of lovliness more wonderful 
and even more magnificent than those that have gone on before, 
while all the time its placid _bospm rnirrors the stately palm trees 
along its banks or reflects the masses of tropical foliage fring- 
ing its edges. 

Wonderful giant trees appear here and there like huge senti- 
nels to herald your approach, and as if by some sudden magic, 
suddenly loom up great forests of many kinds of trees — trees laden 
with every imaginable shade of green, while mosses and lichen 
and air plants without number hang down in a wild profusion of 
tropical beauty. 

Strange birds are seen everywhere along the trip, beautiful 
flowers bloom along its shores or raise up their fragrant blossoms 
of white and lavender as you pass. Occasional alligators appear 
to arouse your curiosity, some of them of enormous proportions. 
At every turn you see something different to attract your atten- 
tion as you swing out from the sharp turns and narrow windings 
of the river, at times you cross inland lakes where the distant 
shore line is so far away as to appear dim and indistinct, and then 
you go back into the beautiful river again, where for miles your 
course is fringed with wild meadows where hundreds of cranes, 
heron and other water fowl scarcely notice your approach. 

At times you almost pass under the overhanging branches of 
massive trees, in whose branches are seen nests of the great 
American eagle, while further back in the tangle of tropical ver- 
dure are hundreds of nests of the smaller denizens of the forest. 

At the various landings which seem to pop up to meet your 
approach, you never see more than a house or two and it makes 
you wonder how far these houses are away from all other houses, 
and far away from the rest of the world you really are, as you 
glide along so peacefully on this wonderful river. 

Don't miss this wonderful trip on your way back home. Take 
the boat at Sanford, which is at the headwater of navigation to the 
larger river boats. You have missed a lot of Florida if you fail 
to see the majestic grandeur of the St. Johns River. 



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THE ROMANTIC OCKLAWAHA 

Nothing more tropical is found in Florida than this winding 
river, replete all the way with picturesque scenery so beautiful 
that no pen picture can describe it. It's a wild tangle of lovliness, 
so enchanting, so awe-inspiring, so magnificent, that all descrip- 
tions belittle its beauties. Wild jungles appear at every turn, 
overhanging vines with waving pendants of trailing moss and 
swaying festoons of flowering vines are in great profusion. 

The farther up the river you go, the narrower it becomes and 
the sharper are its windings. At places your boat brushes the 
tropical vegetation along the banks and startles wild birds and 
reptile life beyond. These birds are so tame that they usually 
sit still and blink you a welcome, resenting your noisy approach 
and screech at you for disturbing their noon-day revery. 

Blooming lilies of magnificent proportions, snowy white, look 
up at you as you glide by and feathery ferns along the 'water's 
edge within your reach. Pale lavender blossoms of the ex- 
quisite water hyacinth perfume the very air you breathe and at 
times almost stop your progress. Sometimes they cloak the little 
river for miles, and your sigh with regret at so ruthlessly de- 
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Bird life is gimply wonderful. You see varieties of birds that 
you have never seen before and th^tyou are not likely to see' 
in other places in Florida. Some of them have the most brilliant 
plumage, while others are as bright as snow. Stately old cranes 
perched on one foot with the other folded up under them pose 
along the shore as you pass, so near that you can look them in 
the eye, and it may be that they decide to stay right where they 
are until you are out of sight, or if you startle them and they de- 
cide to move, they only get a little farther out of your way and 
settle themselves back again to wonder who you are and why you 
disturb them. 

Here you see the alligator in his natural haunts and see many 
of them. Miles away from any habitation they live as they lived 
years ago before the white man came to Florida, and as a natural 
consequence began their extermination. This Ocklawaha River 
trip is one of the most tropical in all Florida and is even more 
jungle-like than the St. Johns, on account of its being narrower 
and having a greater tangle of shrubbery along its many sharp 
curves and graceful windmgs. 

Regular boats make this river trip from Palatka, on the St. 
Johns, where the Ocklawaha runs into the larger stream, to Silver 
Springs, near Ocala. You can stop off on your way up the St. 
Johns or take the trip from the Ocala and in the opposite direction. 

SILVER SPRINGS 

Silver Springs is at the beginning of Silver River; it empties 
into the Ocklawaha, and is one of the most remarkable places in 
the whole State of Florida. 

Here is a large lake, the bottom of which is one seething, bub- 
bling mass of springs. Hundreds of them doing their bit to out- 
rival all the others in contributing more than their share of the 
waters flowing on and on to the mighty ocean miles beyond. 

People come from all over the country to see Silver Springs — 
it's worth a trip of many miles. You go out in glass-bottom boats 
and look down to depths of many feet, where the water is clearer 
than the atmosphere. You see the wonderful springs down sixty 
feet below; you see them coming up out of crevices of the rocky 
bottom, huge caverns in the depths below, where the sandy bot- 
tom is one seething, boiling mass. It's a wonderful sight and 
more wonderful as your vision becomes clearer, and you study the 
plant and vegetable life below you. Trailing grasses and mosses 
growing on the bottom or trailing out of the rocks, set in motion 
by the bubbling springs are never still for an instant. Hundreds 
of fish are swimmmg around beneath you, so far below that they 
are not disturbed by your boat. 

You drift on from one place to another, given fanciful names 
that have been chosen appropriately: The Ladies' Parlor, Ca- 
thedral Parkway, Land of Flowers, Thousand Geysers, and many 
others. You look down into a veritable fairyland, a scene of 
beauty and magical effect which is vastly enhanced by the 
chromatic tints reflected by the rays of a Florida sun. It aston- 
ishes you at the wonderful under-water illumination and for a 
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ance is furnishing the scene with its lighting. Expert opinion on 
tliis brilliant reflection of light under water and its wonderful 
rainbow colorings define it as due to the refraction of light pass- 
ing through the water, and on account of the certain analysis of 
these particular springs, gives the brilliant colorings found here 
— colors that shade from rich purple and blue to the softer opalis- 
tic tints. It is a sight rarely equalled, is worth coming miles 
to see. 



ACROSS THE EVERGLADES 

Do you remember when you went to school and read about The 
Florida Everglades? Do you remember visions of a wild tangle 
of tropical jungle and miry swamp? It was filled with rattlesnakes 
and alligators and wild beasts, with a tribe of Seminole Indians 
to help make the picture more realistic. 

Today this wild country can be traveled in comfort by boat, 
and some of these wonderful things can be seen. 

If you are in Fort Myers you can take a boat up the Caloosa- 
hatchee River, thence by the new drainage canal to Moore Haven 
and then along this same canal and across Lake Okeechobee to 
Palm Beach. 

The bird life in the wild tangled tropical verdure is worth a 
visit to this part of the world. Feathered denisons of the air 
whose beauty beggars description, wild water fowl that scream at 
your approach, dainty little song birds whose warblings bid you 
welcome as you approach. Don't leave Florida without a trip to 
this heretofore inaccessible 
wilderness. 

UP THE INDIAN RIVER 

This boat connects at 
Palm Beach with a line 
running through Fort 
Pierce, Rockledge and 
Daytona all the way up the 
East Coast into St. Au- 
gustine, and traverses a 
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separated and protected 
by a series of keys. Many 
of these lagoons are con- 
nected by canals. This in- 
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THE BEAUTIFUL HILLSBORO 

The Hillsboro River, like all other Florida rivers, is one long 
scene of beauty from its rise, away back inland, down past the 
dam, where the Tampa Electric Company puts a stop to its 
natural course; down past Sulphur Spring and on through quiet 
meadows dotted here and there with beautiful old moss-covered 
water oaks, sentinels of the forest, who have watched its silent 
flow for many generations; on past tangled patches of sub-tropical 
loveliness and down through the metropolis of South Florida to 
its mouth in the bay. 

Unlike most Florida rivers, the little rivulet that trickles along 
some twenty miles, above all unmindful of its own importance, 
becomes the waterway that floats great vessels that sail out to 
every part of the world. Unmindful of its own importance 
up there in its jungle-shored wilderness, but bridled by the hand 
of man, its waters help to furnish the power that lights a city and 
runs the machinery of many great industries. 

As you stand on Lafayette bridge and look into its pelucid 
depths below and watch the water hyacinths floating seaward 
under your feet, you do not realize how important the little river 
really is to your every day needs. 

But not as an aid to industry or as a commercial asset do we 
want to eulogize this beautiful- little stream. The red men who 
fished in its peaceful waters and paddled his canoe along 
its palm-dotted shore never dreamed of supplanting the great 
orb of the night or his brilliant camp fire lighting system by any 
efforts of the Hillsborough. He loved it for its natural beauty, 
for its graceful and wooded curves, its long meadows and its pic- 
turesqueness, and so do a latter day people who live in this part 
of Florida. 

Up beyond the dam the Hillsborough is a different stream — 
more wild and more picturesque — and is well known to every 
fresh water fisherman for miles around. 

A WONDERFUL TRIP THROUGH ISLAND SEA 

One of the most interesting water trips and probably the best 
known in South Florida, is to take the boat some morning at 
Tampa, glide out into the lower Hillsborough, on across the bay 
to the wide expanse of water beyond. 

As you swing out into the tide and are setting yourself for a 
couple of hours of real enjoyment, as the boat turns its bow sea- 
ward and the big electric plant fills your vision to the west, you 
glance up stream and see the mighty draw of Lafayette Street 
l)ridge lift itself quietly to let some of the smaller water craft go 
through, and you recall that there is only one other draw bridge 
like this in the whole world. 

It may be before you come back at night you will decide that 
there are very few boat trips like this. 

On down the river you glide, past the Mallory docks, where 
you see the larger shipping of the port, on out past Grassy Island, 
on which rumor has it that the city will build a big amusement 
park some day; past the railroad docks with their big phos- 
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On the Hillsborough River 

in the world. In the distance across the estuary you see the big 
ship building plants and other industries. 

But you are not interested this morning in industries or in- 
dustrial strife and glance out over the tranquil waters of the bay 
and notice the long line of bouys and beacons marking the ship 
channel that the government dredged to 24 feet that helped make 
Tampa the seventh port in the country. 

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with its seawall in between you and the Bayshore Boulevard, 
that beautiful drive along the city's waterfront that you rode over 
last nigt.t and marve ed at its "Row of Pearls" that lighted your 
way. Ton-'glit yc.u will understand why it is a row of pearls when 
you come back and see it lignted up. 

Farther down the cliannel before you enter the bay and pass 
the narrows, a receding tide shows a sandy shore covered with 
myriads of tiddlers that are crawling over each other in thous- 
ands, whi.e screeching water fowl dart down and snatch a hasty 
breakfast. As you pass, the cook's galley contributes a few 
scraps ficm the early breakfast and dozens of these beautiful 
birds fall in behind the boat and follow you for miles in the 
hope of otlier snatches of food. 

Out in tlie end of the lower island an American eagle soars 
majestically overheiid and hundreds of other water fowl are seen 
in every direction. 

You pass the first beacon and on it are perched numerous brown 
pelicans, nigger ducks, water tukrey and smaller birds. They are 
not frightened at your craft. It's merely a daily occurrence to 
them. 

On down past the "Coul Wreck" where years ago an old vessel 
was lost in a storm and whose smoke stack is still visible at low 
water, past the bell bouy, down across the oyster bar and into 
the wider waters of the bay, you have passed Ballast Point long 
ago and Gadsden is off your starboard quarter and the smoke of 
Port Tampa appears in the distance and dead ahead looms the 
city of St. Petersburg. 

You notice in the distance a large mass of terns and smaller 
gulls, with here and there a pelican, all darting toward the water 
and screeching at the top of their lungs. And then as you get 
nearer you see between them and the water hundreds of small 
minnows and you marvel at the sight. 

No need to marvel. It's a common sight. The water is a 
seething mass of Spanish mackerel, chasing the minnows and 
the minnows have attracted the birds, who gobble them up almost 
as fast as the mackerel. Also little minnows — hard luck for you. 
What the fish don't get of you in the water the birds gobble up 
in the air. 

Off your port quarter you spy a giant sea turtle, whose head, 
as he comes up for a breath of air, is as big as the little fellow 
who is playing about the deck. 

Sometimes a shark is seen to scoot across your bow and por- 
poises are in evidence many times. A school that has been frol- 
icking near by dart toward the boat and take their place ahead 
of you and dart back and forth in front for miles. 

And now you near the Sunshine City, St. Petersburg, the 
tourist town you have heard so much a'bout. The big piers reach 
out to greet you, a long line of fishermen are busy up and down 
its sides, wise old pelicans dart l)ack and forth from piling to 
piling and the bust~e of the incoming l)oat brings its crowd of 
curious to look you over. 

Half t'c passengers get off here. Others come on and again 
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Pier at Anna Maria 

of the yacht ibasin dart out to escort you out into the bay. More 
pelicans skim back and forth across your bow or blink at you 
from a convenient piling. 

A mighty aeroplane ascends heavenward as you leave the 
town. High up into the sky it goes and another brave passenger 
has received a white and gold diploma for his bravery and is set 
back another ten-spot for doing it. 

A long, low beach fringed with trees with stately palms stand- 
ing out here and there in prominence is now in evidence, while 
on our left is a wide expanse of water. A little farther on we 
pass Bird Key, a sanctuary for bird's, where Uncle Sam has said 
that the foot of man must not trod. No human dare land here. 

Out on near-by shoals are resting places for birds and thou- 
sands of feathered creatures nest here unmolested. 

Farther to the right is Pass-a-Grille and away in the distance 
is Anna Maria, but we are bound inland and turn our course up 
the beautiful wooded shore of the Manatee River. 

We pass a few smaller landing docks at Palmetto and then 
across the river to Bradentown, the last stop on our journey. We 
go ashore and visit the most wonderful trucking section in all 
Florida. The Manatee River section holds that proud distinction. 
A little further up' the river is the largest grapefruit grove in 
the world. 

The whistle blows, the bell rings and we are on our way back 
home from one of the most delightful journeys we have taken 
under Southern skies. 

The mirrored depths of the beautiful Anclote river, flowing 
from its source in thickets of tropical verdue; winding its silvery 
way midst banks of many colored greens; and dotted here and 
there along its serpentine boundries with thickets of palmettos 
and forests of mighty oaks is indescrible. Not as long by 
many miles as the world renowned St. Johns, not as wild and 
picturesque as the wonderful Ocklawaha,, less varied in appear- 
ance perhaps, than the famous Suwanee; but withal one of the 
most beautiful and most remarkable in the whole State. 

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waters than in any other stream for miles around. 

The pleas. ng blending of natural loveliness, the sights of bird 
and animal life, and the remarkable transparency of the water 
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gMONG the forty-eight States of our Union, Florida is the 
exception in almost everything. Her climate associates her 
in our imagination with the famous Riveria and the distant 
Nile. Her vegetation, the palms and the hg suggest the Orient. 
In her jungleland lurks the lure of the tropics. With her thou- 
s.-'nds of outlying keys, her bordering stretches of mangrove 
swamps and her vast inland watercourses, the merging of .her high 
hammock land with the warm waters of the gulf is almost in- 
creditable. 

In such a diverse habitat there naturally dwells a multitude of 
strange and Ijeautiful ])irds. In fact there are over three hundred 
and fifty different kinds of birds native to our State, about one 
hundred and fifty per- 
manent residents and 
breeders, and over two 
hundred migrants. 
Probably the most in- 
teresting of these, and 
at the same time the 
most characteristic of 
Florida are the water 
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Imagine an island no 
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than's" main deck 
where one hundred 
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their rests and raise 
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Roosevelt and hun- 
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worth while to travel 
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order to spend a few 

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was through the interest and inita- 
tive of Mr. Roosevelt that the 
United States Department of Agri- 
culture now assumes protection of 
many of our most important bird 
rookeries. In these sanctuaries, 
the snowy heron and the Ameri- 
can egret find refuge from the 
plume hunter, and make their 
home together with the brown peli- 
can, the cormorant, the white ibis, 
the anhinga, the laughing gull, the 
black skimmer and also herons of 
dififerent species. 

The government wardens do not 
allow anyone to enter these reser- 
vations, as such intrusion serious- 
ly disturbs the nesting birds, but 
a view from a suitable distance is 
the best that the scene affords. A 
beautiful picture can be best ap- 
preciated at a distance. 

In the fall and spring the 
beaches team with shore birds, and 
there is no' more wholesome rec- 
reation for the vacationist than to 
provide himself with a pocket edi- 
tion of Chapman and a good field 
glass and see how many different 
beach birds he can identify. In 
November, 1916, I spent the entire 
month in combing the beach of 



Tampa Bay for 
birds and I sub- 
mit the full list 
that I made at 
that time in or- 
der to serve as a 
guide to what 
one might ex- 
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season: Pied-bill- 
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Eagle and Easrle Nest 

— Photo Nat. Aud. Soc. 



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loon, 15; herring gull, 6; ring-billed gull, 12; laughing gull, 500; 
common tern, 100; black tern, 50; royal tern, 75; black skimmer, 
750; cormorant, 250; brown pelican, 275; white pelican, 1; man-o'- 
war, 6; red-breasted merganser, 450; lesser scaup, 75; black duck, 
100; white i'bis, 250; wood ibis, 50; American egret, 25; Ward 
heron, 75; Louisiana heron, 175; little blue heron, 200; green heron, 
5; black-crowned night heron, 25; yellow-crowned night heron, 25; 
clapper rail, 20; least sandpiper. 2,000; semi-palmated sandpiper, 
2,000; red-backed sandpiper, 10,000; dowitcher, 75; greater yellow- 
legs, 6; lesser yellowlegs, 40; willet,*50; spotted sandpiper, 1; black- 
bellied plover, 225; killdeer, 150; semi-palmated plover, 250; Wilson 
plover, 200; ruddy turnstone, 50; ground dove, 15; turkey vulture 
100; black vulture, 75; marsh hawk, 10; bald eagle, 25; osprey, 6 
kingfisher, 50; red-winged blackbird, 50; Florida grackle, 2,000 
boat-tailed grackle, 200; besides many land birds of equal interest 
which always frecjuent the pines and mangroves in the vicinity of 
the beach. 

A game bag of this kind is a priceless treasure to those who 
learn to follow this kind of sport. The hunter experiences all the 
delight of outdoor recreation and in addition has stored up a 
fund of knowledge that is a permanent source of pleasure and 




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profit to him, and a constant 
incentive to spend all his un- 
occupied hours in the open — 
for to the bird watcher there 
is no closed season and no 
bag limit. If the beach birds 
served no other purpose than 
to divert mankind from the 
tedious strain of commercial 
strife, their mission would be 
sufficiently full, but their field 
of usefulness extends to the 
realm of economy as well. 
The Biological Survey has 
examined the stomachs of 
countless numbers of these 
little gleaners of the sea- 
shore and found them to be 
one of man's most helpful 
allies. Their food has been 
shown to consist chiefly of 
injurious aquatic insects, and 
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and mussels, starfish and marine worms which prey upon oysters; 
also gratshoppeis form a large percentage of the food of herons 
and gulls particularly. In Salt Lake City, Utah, the grateful citi- 
zens have erected a splendid monument in commemoration of the 
services rendered the early settlrs by the sea-gulls in combatting 
the grasshopper plague. 

In addi.iju to many ospreys and eagles which add to the pic- 
turesquf ncss of our seacoast scenery, many other birds of prey 
dwell l)ack in the woods where their wild cries, in perfect keeping 
\^ith tl cir untamed surroundings, shriek defiance to tbat stupid 
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Ol the twenty-eight different species of raptores occurring in 
Florida only three or four are sufficiently injurious to warrant 
their numbers being reduced. These are the sharp-shinned hawk, 
the Cooper's hawk and the great-horned owl, and it is questionable 
if even these oiYenders do not do enough good to ofifset their way- 
ward ways. All the other species, including the kites, marsh hawk, 
red-shouldered hawk, sparrow hawk, l)arn owl, barred owl, screech 
owl. and the odd little burroughing owl are nature's most persistent 
harriers of mice, rats and the larger insects, and to kill one of 
these noble creatures is a crime against the commonwealth. If 
the gunner is not well enough acquainted with his quarry to dis- 
tinguish, for example, between a sharp-shinned hawk and a spar- 
row hawk he should not trust himself with a gtin, for it is better 
for the guilty to escape than for the innocent to suffer the ex- 
treme and unjust penalty of death. 

For a "bag" of song birds and smaller land birds the bird 
watcher need only stroll to the roadside, the orange ^;rove, or the 
thicket along some sluggish stream. If the watcher is keen of 
ear and quick of eye the shy forms and medley of song will ulti- 
mately resolve themselves into a goodly list. A trip along the 







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A Family of White Pelicans 

— Photo W. L, Finlej\ 

Upper Hillsborough, for instance, may yield on a bright winter day 
a list of something like this: Bobwhite, mourning dove, ground 
dove, hairy v^roodpecker, downy woodpecker, red-cockaded wood- 
pecker, yellow-bellied sapsucker, pileated woodpecker, red-headed 
woodpecker, flicker, bluejay, Florida crow, fish crow, phoebe, 
meadowlark, goldfinch, pinewoods sparrow, song sparrow, swamp 
sparrow. Savannah sparrow, chipping sparrow, white-throated 
sparrow, towhee, cardinal, shrike, blue-headed vireo, myrtle war- 
bler, pine warbler, palm warbler, black and white warbler, yellow- 
throated warbler, Florida yellow-thioat, American pipit, cedar 
waxwing, tree swallow, ruby-crowned kinglet, mocking bird, cat- 
bird, brown thrasher, Florida wren, house wren, long-billed marsh 
wren, white-breasted nuthatch, brown-headed nuthatch, tufted 
titmouse, Carolina chickadee, blue-grey gnatcatcher, wood thrush, 
hermit thrush, robin and blue bird. 

Of course, one must come to Florida in the spring to enjoy 
her song birds at their best, but even in the winter time may be 
heard the bell-like notes of the blue bird, the call of the meadow- 
lark, the whistling of the cardinal, or the song of the mockingbird. 
Perhaps no other single phase of bird life can contribute so much 
toward making the Southland famous as the song of the mocking- 
bird. He is to Dixie what the skylark and nightingale_ are to 
Europe. A wonderful composer he, and I know of no bird that 
equals him in variety of notes and the power of continuously sus- 
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twenty-four hours without interruption. But we have many birds 
of less fame whose songs are equal to or superior to that of the 
mockingbird in fineness of tone. The wood thrush which I have 
heard sing in the northern part of Florida, I believe to be the 
sweetest songster in the South. His voice has been characterized 
by John Burroughs as "hymnal" in cjuality and his evening strain 
i-5 an inspiration to all that have the good fortune of listening to 
him. A book has i:ieen written al)Out the song of the cardinal 
and the clear ilute-like whistles of this crimson-clad bird are 
worthy of the honor. Many have heard the robin-like carol of the 
summer tanager, but few give credit to the real author; in fact, 
many of our most talented vocalists are shy tree-top l:)irds whose 
compositions are accredited to the mockinglDird — thus adding to 
his already tremendous popularity. 

Very many other l)irds, although hardly entitled to the rank of 
songsters, contribute many pleasing notes to the great volume of 
wayside and woodland chorus. The twittering of martins, the 
warbling of vireos, the chattering of wrens, all have their appre- 
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Colony of Sooty Terns Nesting- 

— Photo H. B. Mills. 

ened but for the call of the whippoorwill, that invisible spirit of 
the night, harkening us back to our childhood days in some dis- 
tant land. To the ear of the true sportsman the cry of the wood- 
duck is music and the wierd shout of the great horned owl touches 
a sympathetic chord in the heart of the woodsman. To banish 
the shrill scream of the eagle from our seacoast would be to 
nature's seaside melody as a lost chord in a great musical composi- 
tion. For nature is harmony itself and I believe it may be safely 
said that if to anyone the sounds of primitive nature do not 
awaken emotion, then his soul is out of harmony with nature. 

Some of the nation's most famous songsters have not been 
mentioned in this paragraph because they seldom lift their voices 
in song during their sojourn in the South. Such is the case with 
the robin, the bobolink, the oriole, the song sparrow, and many 
others which are so popular with the bird lovers of the North. 

Nothing is said here in regard to the economic value of the 
song birds and the smaller land birds since these facts, through 
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Flock of Bro^vn Pelicans 

— Photo H. K. Job. 

Species of rails, both species of gallinules, the coot, the woodcock, 
the greater yellowlegs, the lesser yellowlegs, the black-bellied 
plover, the golden plover, and the mourning dove. This com- 
prises a total of forty-six different kinds of game birds that may 

be shot in Florida vmder proper re- 
strictions. The bobwhite and wild 
turkey are classed as resident game 
and are controlled by the State. All 
the other species mentioned are 
classed as migratory game birds and 
are controlled by the Federal Gov- 
ernment through the Biological Sur- 
vey, United States. 'Department of 
Agriculture. All 'the rest of the 
three hundred and six species _ of 
Florida birds are given protection 
by either the State or Federal Gov- 
ernment, most of them l)y both. The 
following-named birds are given 
full and permanent protection: All 
species of grebes or divers, loons, 
gulls, terns, skimmers, shearwaters, 
gannets, cormorants, pelicans, man- 
o'-war birds, flamingoes, spoonbills, 
ibises, herons, bitterns, limpkins, 
doves (except the mourning dove), 
vultures, hawks, owls, paroquets, 
cuckoos, kinglishers, woodpeckers, 
goatsuckers, swifts, humming birds, 
flycatchers, the Corvidae, the icten- 
dae the finches, tanagers, swallows, 
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(1) Cabot and Royal Tern, (2) White 
Heron, (3) Florida Gallinule, (4) 
Swallow Tail Kites 

— Photo Nat. Audubon Soc. 



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vireos, creepers, war- 
blers, pipits, wrens, 
nuthatches, kinglets 
and thrushes. In ad- 
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with the treaty between 
the United States and 
Canada, has declared a 
five-year closed season 
on wood duck, which is 
subject to extension, 
and a ten-year closed 
season on the follow- 
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game birds: The swan, 
all species of cranes, 
phalaropes, a v o c e t s, 
sandpipers, curlews, 
plovers and shorebirds. 
It would have been 
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for other migratory game, and on the tenth of March for resident 
game. The bag limit is twenty quail or bobwhite a day or 300 
a season, two turkeys a day or ten a season, twenty-five ducks a 
day of all kinds, eight geese, eight brant, twenty-five altogether 
of rails (except sora), coot and gallinules, fifty sora, fifteen alto- 
gether of black-bellied and golden plover and greater and lesser 
yellowlegs, twenty-five jacksnipe, six woodcock and twenty-five 
mourning doves. A hunting license fee of $15.00 is required of all 
non-residents of the State to hunt in any one county of the State; 
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or $3.00 to hunt in any other one county. To hunt from a motor- 
boat, sailboat, or airplane is illegal. 

No greater advance in the cause of wild bird conservation has 
ever been made than in the signing of the treaty betv^een the 
United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory 
•birds in the United States and Canada. There is no longer any 
ciuestion in regard to the constitutionality of the migratory bird 
law. The establishment of the treaty settles this question for all 
time. There is no conflict between the federal law and the laws 
of the individual States. Where the two differ the more conser- 
vative provision or the one effecting the more protection to the 
migratory bird takes precedence. Already an appreciable increase 
in many kinds of migratory game have been reported from various 
parts of the country. Not for many years have the lesser scaup 
ducks been as plentiful in Hillsborough Bay as this fall. 

A chapter on the birds of Florida would hardly be complete 
without a special word in regard to the snowy heron and the 
American egret because of whose l^eautiful snow white plumes a 
l)loody war has been waged for the past half century — a war be- 
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and that humane, refined citizenship which can enjoy the beautiful 
in nature without defiling, which can behold chastity without rape. 
In the accompanying photographs by Mr. Oscar E. Baynard of 
Plant, City, Florida, can be seen both of these splendid birds in 
full plumage. The plumes are not developed on the birds until the 
nesting time, and before the young birds are ready to leave the 
nest and still dependent on the care of the old birds, the delicate 
sprays become stained and worn at the tips and finally shed. In 
order to obtain plumes, therefore, that are acceptable to the 
millinery trade it is necessary to slaughter the parent birds while 
the young are yet helpless. This slaughter is conducted in the 
most cruel and revolting fashion and the young calling piteously 
to the last are left to slowly starve to cleath. The practice is 
illegal inhuman and immoral, but like prostitution it persists in 
defiance to public decency. We appeal to, therefore, in the name 
of all that is opposed to profanity and rape to help us win the 




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battle that will luring the 
egret back to its own. You 
can do this by declining to 
patronize the lawless agents 
of this clandestine trade, by 
refusing to accept the rav- 
aged plumes as a wift, or by 
reporting to the Florida Au- 
dubon Society, Winter Park, 
Florida, or to Capt. B. J. Pa- 
cetti, Federal Inspector, un- 
der the Federal Migratory 
Bird Law, Ponce Park, Flor- 
ida, any evidence that would 
lead to the conviction of any 
of these outlaw feather deal- 
ers, furnishing names of 
guilty parties and of wit- 
nesses, if possible. The 
Audubon Societies in co-op- 
eration with the Federal 
Government are striving to 
stamp out this unholy busi- 
ness, and any information 
that you can .give will be 
promptly acted upon. 

The National Association of Audubon Societies with headquar- 
ters at 1974 Broadway, New York City, is one of the greatest 




A^'bitc Ibi.s and Louisiana Herons 

— Photo H. K. Job. 




Les.ser Scaup Duck — The Common ^Vinter Duck 

— Photo National Audubon Society. 



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Ducks in Midair 

■ — -Prom Field and Stream. 

powers in wild life conservation in America. The work of this 
society is largely educational and by means of excellent literature, 
its corps of able lecturers and field agents, and especially through 
its Junior Audubon work in the schools, which work has been so 
generously financed by Mrs. Russell A. Sage, it has paved the way 
for the progressive legislation that has been enacted by Congress 
and 'by some of our State Legislatures. It is recommended that 
all those who are interested in bird life become identified with 
their local State Society and also with the National Association. 




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snowy heron which illus- 
trate these pages. To obtain 
"sittings" of these shy and 
elusive birds at such close 
range requires the utmost 
patience and skill and a 
thorough knowledge of bird 
behavior. On one occasion I 
know of Mr. Baynard having 
spent the greatest share of 
the time in the blind for 
twenty consecutive days in 
order to record just the pose 
he coveted. Mr. Herbert K. 
Job is one of the foremost 
wild bird photographers of 
the country and his remark- 
able moving pictures taken 
in some of the principle bird 
rookeries of Florida and 
Louisiana are truly master- 
pieces in cineographic 
achievement. Especially for- 
tunate we are in securing a 
record from the camera of 
Mr. W. L. Finley, who has 
long held a prominent place 
among the pioneers of western ornithology. No better monu- 
ment could be commemorated to the labors of this ardent natur- 
alist than the myriads of birds whose lives he succeeded in per- 
petuating. 




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Sooty Terns on Nest 



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A Flock of -Friendly Pelicans 

A regular bulletin, the "Bird Lore" magazine, published bi-monthly 
by the association, serves to keep its members in touch with Audu- 
bon activities throughout the country and thereby solicit their help 
when the cause of wild life conservation is threatened its many 
and ever vigilant enemies. 

It is regretted that it is not possible to give credit in each case 
to the photographers 
who so generously con- 
tributed the fruits of 
their labors toward the 
illustration of this chap- 
ter, but the pictures 
were obtained from the 
collection on file at the 
office of the National 
Association of Audubon 
Societies and the name 
of the photographer was 
in some cases uninten- 
tionally omitted. Any 
one who is acquainted 
with the difliculties of 
wild bird photography 
can appreciate the splen- 
did work of Mr. Oscar 
E. Baynard in obtaining 
the marvelous portraits 

of the American egret, Turkey Buzzard 

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M^fc-^O THE hardy, long seasoned professional golfer, who ful- 
£ ^-^ ly realizes that a let up of his game during the winter 
^^^y months means a serious handicap to him in the Spring, I 
need not offer this advise . 

But to the ambitious golfer, who is just coming and wants 
every little aid possible in rounding out his game, by all means 
come to Florida this winter and play golf. The many days of en- 
forced rest due to bad weather up North will take the edge off of 
your game and cause you to stand still all winter. 

Play it in Florida under Southern skies and in warm sunshine, 
where healh giving zephyrs blow gently and your young muscles 
harden and strengthen from day to day. Where the balmy air 
kissed by the rays of a sub-tropical sun, takes out all the kinks of 
sore sinews and makes you fit and strong for your next summer's 
game. 

Don't overdo it, hut play every day, and see if your game does. 
not improve as the season advances. 
And improve more rapidly than it ever I ~. 

did under less stimulating conditions. ' 
Everything strengthens your play down 
here.. Change of air, change of scene, 
healthful surroundings and freedom 
from your usual routine of everyday 
cares. The sun shines more brightly, 
your vision becomes clearer and you 
see things differently. Start playing 
in December and by the last of January 
you will marvel at the improvement. 

Ask every big golfer if I am not 
telling the truth. See if they do not 
tell you just the same as I do. 

To you who have never become an 
ardent devotee of "The Ancient and 
Honorable Game" and are planning 
to lay aside business cares this winter 
and spend the next few months in 
Florida, you will find that this is a 
remarkably fine place to become ac- 
quainted with The Game of Golf. Get 
the habit on one or another of the big 
golf course and find out just how much 
it will do to restore your health and 
make you fine and fit again; and then 
go home and keep it up by going on 
w^th the game. 

-I have spent many winters in Flor- 
ida and have played golf on all its big 




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courses and I can truthfully say that I have enjoyed the game as 
much here as any place I ever played. That has been my exper- 
ience and vifill be yours. Come to Florida this winter, her big 
splendid courses are welcoming you. The best golfers in the 
world are playing here every season. See what a fine healthy set 
of men they are and watch their play. It is sure to hold your 
interest and help you to improve your own game. 

Golf is in the air in every resort town in Florida. Its the big 
thing to do. It gets you as soon as you arrive and holds you 
more and more every day you stay. Come this winter and 
join the big army of the best sports in the,' world. Their 
name is legion, those Golf Fans, and every year their number 
grows. The man who don't play golf in these days is the wonder 
of his circle of friends. In some cases he soon drops out of the 
circle. 

Somehow or other, if he is a good golfer, its easier for him to 
enter new circles, circles that is very much worth his while to 
enter, for both social and business reasons. The word Golf is in- 
variably an open sesame to the exclusive circle and allows the 
lucky one the entree of its innermost shrine. 

So come to Florida this winter and play golf. See what a dif- 
ference it will inake to your social status and your business pres- 
ti'ge before the year is over. And then think of the good time you 
will have and the good health you will have and all the business 
cares and worries that you will be able to brush away at the same 
time. 

TAMPA IS GOLF MAD. 

In this all year round land of bright sunshine and summer 
weather, the "Great O'ut Doors" bids you welcome at every turn. 
Dame Nature, always in a flirtatious mood, smiles and beckons 
you to come and enjoy a thousand and one marvelous visions of 
scenic beauty, scattered here and ther'e over hill and plain, in the 
woods or beside some winding rivulet, ever and anon peeping out 
through wonderful vistas like a pleasing apparition resplendent in 
an unsurpassing assemblage of rare kaleidoscopic tents and amaz- 
ing colorings. 




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Her invitation to come out and fill your lungs with the health 
giving ozone of God's free air m the "Great Out Doors," is irre- 
sistible, and you who are worshippers at her lovely shrine, go at 
her bidding and enjoy all she has to offer. 

No wonder then that having surrendered to the wiles of this 
attractive divinity, you are soon led to go a step farther and be- 
come an humble and enthusiastic devotee of the great game of 
golf, of which the gentle goddess is god mother-in-chief, and so 
Mr. Golfer or Mrs. Golfer, for you all belong to the same big 
family, as you are here in Tampa, bag and baggage, and as it's 
needless to say, the bag in question is generously filled with a col- 
lection of your favorite golf clubs — know it, as soon as you ar- 
rive that the city has gone ,'mad." 

Mad on golf and golfers. 
Mad on niblicks and mashies. 
Mad about old Col. Bogie, 
Mad about fair Palma Ceia. 

But likewise it is glad; glad that it has two of the best golf 
course in Florida, and one of the best in the world. 

You find this blending of madness and gladness everywhere 
you go, and soon become mad yourself, and are glad that you are 
mad. It's in the air in Tampa, this golf madness, and everybody 
that is any body has it. 

If you have a toothache and see a dentist in the morning, you 
meet the same fellow at the fourth putting green in the afternoon. 
He has forgotten your tooth and where he met you, but glad be- 
cause you are golf mad and gives you the glad hand because he 
is mad — golf mad. 

If you have been away from golf for some time, and lacking 
its wonderful exercise, and the life giving air of the golf course, 
find yourself a trifle unfit and see a doctor, you meet him at half 
after three at the fifth tee. He dosen't ask to see your tongue. 
That's shop talk, a talk forgotten in the pleasure of the game. 
He may ask to see your card, and josh you a little, because you 
have only made the hole in six, when he was only one short of 
Bogie, and at the fifteenth you meet your landlord. That solemn 
looking fellow up at the hotel who peered out at you over the 
shoulder of his clerk and the assistant clerk, and the second and 
third assistants, when you registered. The solemnchoUy fellow 
you never see out among the human folks in the lobby, and who 
never speaks to anybody. 

Gee! how he laughs at you when you smash your ball for a 
clean 200 yards, which rises like a bird in the air, but falls well 
out of the bounds, and then links fins with you and arm in arm 
you go out into the rough to look for the ball. And you are glad 
that he is mad — golf mad — and that you are mad, and he is glad 
too. And then, as you finish and find that you did the "blooming 
course" in 90, only two behind the jolly old chap ahead of you, and 
with him and his partner, the little short, fat fellow who is smok- 
ing the big black Havana, go back to the club house for a shower 
and exchange of clothes and golfing experiences, you vote them 
the most sociable pair that you have met in many moons. 

They are mad of course, but only golf mad, and on the way 
home you remember that you have not asked their names. The 




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one is now on his way home to put the finishing touches on his 
sermon for tomorrow, and the other you meet on Monday in the 
director's room, and he .coldly turns down your request for a 
loan. Cold-blooded in business when sane, but mad on the golf 
course, and glad he is mad; glad that he can forget money and 
loans and turn downs. 

As you ride home in the early evening you throw' out your 
chest and breathe the exhilarating zephyrs of Tampa Bay. You 
are glad that you are alive; glad that you are here in Tampa, and 
above all glad that you are mad — golf mad — and grows gladder 
from day to day as you grow madder. 

Oh this game of golf is a grand old game, and Tampa's three 
golf courses invite you to 'be among those present every day of 
your visit. 

Palma Ceia Golf Course — An eighteen-hole expanse of velvety 
lawns, rolling greens, and dangerous hazards, flanked in the back- 
ground by an endless expanse of wild semi-tropical foliage, is the 
pleasing view from the spacious porch of the beautiful new club 
house of the Palma Ceia Golf Club. Completed but a little over 
two years ago, it presents to the ardent golfer, a veritable golfer's 
paradise, and is rapidly becoming recognized as one of the best 
course in America, and is the second longest in the Southeast. 

Nature smiled on this particular spot, and seemed to have de- 
signed it for a golf course, and with the aid of Tom Bendelow and 
his professional skill, an almost perfect course has been con- 
structed. The stranger finds here a real test of his prowess and 
glories in its rolling greens, its elevated tees and general pictur- 
esqueness. Its troublesome pits and hazardous bunkers test his 
metal to the utmost and cause hiin to exercise the height of his 
skill, with many a sad setback to his ambitions. 

One advantage which this course has over its older, and there- 
fore more illustrious courses, is its proximity to the city. Two 
and a half miles from the center of the business section of Tampa, 




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the Palma Ceia course is desfined to be one of its greatest assets. 
Not only is it "close to town," but it is not in the country as 
it is located in the heart of Palma Ceia Park, one of the city's 
thriving suburbs, rapidly being built up with beautiful homes. 



No. 


- Yards 


Par 


Bogey 


No. 


Yards 


Par 


Bogey 


1 


430 


4 


5 


10 


360 


4 


1 


2 


310 


4 


6 


11 


220 


3 


4 


3 


575 


5 


6 


13 


390 


4 


.3 


4 


120 


3 


3 


13 


320 


4 


5 


5 


330 


4 


5 


14 


, 415 


4 


5 


6 


455 


5 


6 


15 


170 


;; 


4 


7 


315 


4 


5 


16 


215 


4 


5 


8 


215 


3 


4 


17 


380 


4 


5 


9 


465 


5 


6 


18 


380 


5 


G 


Out 


3,245 


37 


41 


In 


3,140 


35 


44 



Total, 6,355 yards; par, 72; bog-ey, 89. 

The club's handsome new $20,000 club house was completed 
and opened Feb. 22, 1917, and is one of the finest equipped coun- 
try club homes in the country. It provides facilities for bowling, 
tennis, croquet, and other games, while its ball room is one of the 
largest in the State. 

The professional in charge is H. Bolesta. 

The Rocky Point Golf Club — Is beautifully situated, seven miles 
from the center of the city on the West Coast road, affording a 15 
to 20 minute automobile ride along the shore of Old Tampa Bay. 

The club house is of concrete construction, with locker rooms 
and shower baths upstairs. The lower floor is used for lounging 
rooms. Meals are served if ordered in advance. 

The course is 18 holes, 5,115 yards; bogey, 82; par, 75, and has 
been constructed seven years. The fairways are in first-class 
condition, and well trapped, and the greens are grass; some are 
flat, others raised, and each one is different. 

There is one well planned "water hole" that will test the 
effect of a "mental hazard" of the best of golfers. 

While the course is flat it is so designed as to make the best 
player play with care, while those in the intermediate class will 
not find it so difficult as to make the game uninteresting. 

The ladies will find the course especially suited for them. The 
course has been especially designed to accominodate all classes of 
playejrs, and was laid out with that thought in mind. 

The club extends its privileges to visiting golfers at usual fees. 

Many social affairs are held at the Rocky Point club house, 
and it is a social center for the local smart set of Tampa. 

The professional in charge is James Thompson. 

GOI.F AT BELLAIRE 

Alex Smith, Professional in charge 

The story of Bellaire is the story of continued development 
along the line of best and highest golfing traditions. Under the 
new ownership this development will not only continue, but, if 
possible, exceed its present limit, as they will spare no expense to 
make the name of Bellaire world famous as a golf center. 

We have two golf courses at Bellaire which are crowded dur- 



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A Bellaire Hole that Tests the Golfer's Skill 

ing the winter months with enthusiasts from all parts of the con- 
tinent. 

Course No. 1, which is 6,218 yards long, is known as the cham- 
pionship course, which, by the way, is an injustice to No. 2, as 
No. 2 which is 5,732 yards long is one of the finest tests of golf 
in the country. Both of these courses were laid out by Donald 
Ross, and that statement tells a great part of the story. 

No. 1 starts off easy with a par 4, the second shot being a 
carry over a deep ravine, which wanders and winds its way across 
both courses, and makes a splendid natural hazard for a great 
many of the holes. The 2nd hole on No. 1 is 310 yards par 4 with 
a tee shot which carries over a ravine followed by a pitch to a 
well protected green. No. 3 is a terror, especially when the wind 
blows from the South. It is a long carry over the ravine which 
lands the ball on a rolling fairway with a strong dip to the West, 
and a stifif second shot to the green which is trapped by a deep 
water ditch on the back, and sand traps to the Fast and West. 
No. 4 par 3 is one of the best golf holes in America. It is a 150 
yard carry to an island green surrounded on all sides by deep 
sand traps flanked by mounds. No. 5 par 4 again encounters the 
wandering ravine and takes a good second to land on the green 
just across the ravine. No. 6 has been changed from a 500 yard 
to a 450 yard with a very large undulating green, which is trapped 
by a serpentine ditch. This hole overlooks the Gulf of Mexico 
and is talked of wherever golf is known, not only as ,a wonderful 
golf hole but a scenic marvel. No. 7368 yards is over the wide 
rolling fairway with traps beautifully placed on either side and 
calling for a very accurate pitch shot over a ditch running in front 
of the green. No. 8 a one shot hole very much undulated on the 
green makes a good stiff par 3. No. 9 is a 453 yard par 5 which 



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always gives an interesting battle, as it is strongly trapped with 
heavy palmetto growth on either side, and is a very much loved 
hole by all golfers. On the retvirn trip No. 10 340 yards carries 
over a hazard with a very interesting second shot to an island 
green which is bisected by a carefully placed grass hollow. This 
is a very deceiving hole as it always looks easy and always plays 
hard. No. 11 is an elevated green; a driver and a mashie both of 
which must be accurately placed. No. 12 190 yards is a well 
guarded hole and the wind comes sweeping in here occasionally 
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ways. No. 13, I consider the perfect golf hole. It is 381 yards 
long, trapped for every conceivable poorly played shot. The 
green is beautifully undulated, as are a great many of our greens 
at Bellaire and the man who makes it in par can pat himself on 
the back and talk about it at the 19th hole for some days to come. 
No. 14 is an undulated rolling fairway with high trees and pal- 
mettos on either s.de and once again encounters the ravine for the 
second shot, which must be very accurately played to hold the 
green which slopes easily toward a ravine. No. 15 a beautifully 
designed one shot hole, although only 136 yards long is a tanta- 
lizer. It is built on the side of a hill, and slopes gently, trapped 
in front by a deep creek, and on the back and sides by deep sand 
traps. No. 16 is the longest hole on the course being 530 yards 
interestingly trapped and is a very hard par 5. No. 17 is prob- 
ably the most interesting hole on the course, 380 yards long. 
The tee shot must carry diagonally two deep ditches and must 
at the same time be played as to escape a deep pond which lies 
to the right of tie fairway. The second shot is a very hard one 
as the green is trapped by a ditch and several deep sand traps and 
is undulated quite freely. No. 18, 480 yards long with a woods 
hazard on the left, and a line of trees on the right and well trap- 
ped makes asplend d "good night" hole. 

I will not tell you about No. 2 course, as it would be more or 
less a repitition, but I will tell you about the two golf courses — 
and I have no hesitation in saying that they are by far the best 
conditioned of any golf courses South of the Mason — Dixon line. 

The greens in the winter are sown with a northern mixture^ 
the secret of which can only be had from Superintendent Byrne, 
who developed and supervises these golf courses, and are as good 
as the best Northern greens during playing season. 

It is needless for me to try to describe the beauties surround- 
ing these golf course, as it is beyond my power, and all you have 
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GOLF AT TARPON SPRINGS 

The Tarpon Country Club of Tarpon Springs has a beautifully 
laid out nine hole golf course that is said to be one of the 'best 
short course in this part of Florida. 

It was constructed to meet the needs of the average player. It 
is "snappy" without being too "stiff," and the player who goes a 
"medicinal hundred" will find it most enjoyable. It is about 3,000 
yards in length and the bogy is 38. This course is only three- 
quarters of a mile from the center of the town and is delightfully 
accessible for the guests of the local hotels. The grounds on 
which the course is built was donated some years ago for this pur- 
pose and a roomy and most comfortable club house has been 
erected. From the spacious porches an unobstructed view of the 
entire course is afforded as well as a beautiful panoramic view 
of blue waters beyond. 

The whole course is slightly elevated above the entire sur- 
rounding country, offering a most pleasing prospective as the 
player wends his way over the links. Refreshing breezes from the 
Gulf affords stimulating effects and the enthusiastic golfer mar- 
vels at the way in which he finishes and how free he feels from 
all physical exertion. The breezes are stimulating and the sun 
shines so brightly that he finds his game improves from day to 
day, and he is very apt to linger at Tarpon Springs and try the 
course many times. 

The club house is equipped with ample lockers and showers 
and there is a competent professional in charge. This club house 
is the scene of many social festivities during the winter season. 
A small charge is made for visiting players and busses are oper- 
ated between the club house and the city of Tarpon Spr'ings. Any 
enthusiastic golfer will enjoy a few days at this attractive course. 




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THE GOLFER ENJOYS USEPPA 

Thousands of tarpon fishermen, all over the country go to 
Useppa Island and stop at the Tarpon Inn to catch fish, but it is 
equally true that many others go all the way from their homes in 
the North to far away Florida and stop at the same place to play 
their favorite game of golf here, at what the Tarpon Inn manage- 
ment terms "The Sportiest Nine Hole Golf Course in Florida.." 

This "\"est Pocket Edition" as they call it, was opened for play 
in r.)l(i, and has been a revelation to many who have played on 
most other Florida courses. Most of these courses are built on 
low flat ground and do not afford the same natural hazard as are 
offered here. 

Useppa Island is unusually high for a Florida key, and pos- 
sesses a rolling, broken surface particularly adapted to golf. The 
average player here marvels at the balmy breezes he encounters 
all over the course. Being entirely surrounded by water, delight- 
ful breezes greet him at every stroke and materially increase his 
endurance and enable him to attain a more accurate and stronger 
stroke. All that a good golfer can expect in a good stiff golf 
course is found at Useppa and yet the more gentle player is 
assured of not too severe obstacles to his success. The course 
itself was planned rather than laid out, and its 2,100 yards so divid- 
ed that every — from the 125 yard mashie pitch into a punch bowl 
green, to the 400 yard home hole — is full of variety and interest. 
All sorts of things to delight a golfer will be found around the 
course. The things that bother, but at the same time make his 
powers as a golfer the more complete are to be encountered, 
and when he has finished this "sporty nine hole golf course" he 
will want to go again the next day and the day after, and many 
more days to come. 

Can you imagine playing golf in more delightful surroundings? 
To come out from the Inn and see long stretches of velvety lawn, 
whose bunkers seem to reach up toward you and becon you to 
come out and try conclusions with Old Colonel Bogie and beat 
the old gentleman at his own game. To see wonderful palm trees 
swaying in the breeze, wafted across stretches of blue waters 
— waters that reach out as far as the eye can see and make you 
stop and marvel at its beauty. 

R'ch tropical foliage delight your vision at every turn, hun- 
dreds of birds, greeting you with songs of gladness, while others 
skim back and forth across the water of the great Gulf of Mexico, 
liright cloudless skies are above you and a Florida summer climate 
welcomes you in winter time. 

Could you ask for anything more, Mr. Golfer, and so there is 
no reason why you outdo yourself and your game gets better 
every day you play. 

Go out and fish tomorrow and forget golf for a day. Forget 
the mistakes you made and catch fish. And then come back on 
the "Vest Pocket Golf Course" again the day after and make less 
mistakes than you did the first day and see how the game you like 
so well will take the soreness out of your muscles and make you 
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a considerable age, being one of the oldest of Florida Golf 
courses. Constructed by the writer about a quarter of a 
century ago, as a private course on his own property, it gradually 
developed into a course on which the visitor and tourist were more 
frequently seen than the local citizens, and, after many ups and 
downs, it is now ready for the "golf stream" that is, we under- 
stand, is headed this way. 

A short description of the course, which is situated one-half 
mile from the principal hotels of Sarasota, and one-quarter of a 
mile from the R, R. Depot, with a magnificent drive way on its 
northern border, is as follows: It is, at present, a nine hole 
course, with two short holes over a water hazard, as a side-show, 
in addition. 

Starting immediately from the front of the Clubhouse, shown 
herewith, we drive eastwards, the first hole being 350 yards, with 
hazards in the shape of ditches for the golfer at all off the line, 
but for the straight driver there is complete safety down the pretty. 

The second hole is somewhat like unto number one, but is a 
bit longer, and the hazards are increased by a diagonally placed 
ditch, annoying to the short swiper from the tee. 

The third hole is one at which the mighty driver opens his 
shoulders and smites, with might and main, for the course is broad 
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The hole is close to a point which is now very shrunken in size 
and no longer a terror to the wondering swiper. 

Now we come to the writer's favorite creation, a long "dog- 
leg" hole, of length about 500 yards, with formidable rough for 
would-be negotiators of the short way to the hole, but no trouble 
for the canny golfer who keeps to the center of the fairway until 
we near the putting green where we find a water hazard, about 
the same breadth as the famous Swilcan burn at St. Andrews, and 
the man who can play his lofting approach well, is sure of his 
reward, unless he overshoots the hole, where a ditch lies in wait 
for the unwary. 

We next arrive on the tee for the fifth hole, another 500 yarder, 
with ditches on both sides, an old alligator hole (now cleaned out 
and garnished) which must be carried, and other trials for the 
luckless golfer, but, really a good golf hole. 

We now turn homewards, and the sixth hole is 280 yards dis- 
tant, with a cross bunker barring the way about 150 yards from 
tee. The remainder is clear, and one can run up his approach in 
true Musselburgh style if he so desires. 

No. Seven is a teaser, with its bunkers and ditches, wet and 
and dry, seemingly covverging at, or near, the putting green. A 
bold, stong player can triumph over all trouble in two, but the 
writer advises the canny to play for safety, and place his ball near 
enough the ditches in two, so as to get a beauty for a loft with the 
third. The hole is 300 yards in length. 

Now there remain but two holes between us and the club 
house, but these holes, together, are more than half a mile long, 
so it takes "some" hitting before we are home. But the fairway 
is broad at the 8th, so the shoulders can be opened out, and space 
can be annihilated, perhaps. Three medium shots get us to the 
green. 

The ninth is the longest and most difficult to negotiate in the 
round, and the only satisfactory way to understand it is to come 
and play it. Suffice to say, that the tee shot has to soar over, 
or between, two rows of extra tall trees, and when these are past, 
there are ditches of various depth and deceit, to be circum- 
vented. A five is par play for the hole and bogey is six. 

We referred to two short holes across the pond. 

You will note that in these nine holes there is no really short 
hole, so to meet the desire of everyone for a hole whereto one can 
attain in a single shot, there are two holes which can be inserted 
between the 7th and 8th holes, 140 and 155 yards long, respectively. 
These are sporty holes and will repay the effort of playing them. 
One of them was recently holed in one stroke by a local golfer, 
but three strokes satisfies the ordinary player. 

The Bogey score is as follows: 5. 5. 4. 5. 5. 4. 5. 5. 6. and for 
the two extra holes 3. 3. Par play is 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4.5. 5. and 3. 3. 

Sarasota is very fortunate in having for professional instuctor 
this season, Mr. Frank Dickson of North Berwick, Scotland, and 
Fort Wayne, Indiana, an experienced and able constructor as 
well as instructor, and it will certainly not be his fault if Sarasota 
does not turn out some first-class golfers. 

The fairways are good this year. The writer can vouch for 
this by personal experience, getting good lies all through the 

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course. The pro- 
fessor, whose hob- 
fa y is putting 
greens, is anxious 
to have the greens 
models o f what 
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They were n e g- 
lected before his 
coming, temporary 
greens taking their 
place, but things 
will be better now. 

The Clubhouse 
is fitted with 
showers, for which 
a supply of hot 
water will be ready if required. 

The rates for the course, including the privileges of the Club- 
house are: Season Ticket, $25.00 One Month, $12.00, One Week 
$5.00, One Day $1.00. Special rates to families. 

J. Hamilton Gillespie. 

GOLF AT BRADENTOWN. 

Local golf enthusiasts are proud of Bradehtown's golf course 
and seldom a cit of its size, either in the North or the South is 
as fortunate in possessing one so good. A reason for this is the 
fact that in order to provide the proper facilities, the city of 
Bradentown issued $20,000 in bonds for this purpose, and a beauti- 
ful 9-hole course was built in a 70-acre tract, only ten minutes' 
walk from the downtown district. 

The course is kept up and operated by the Bradentown Golf 
and Country Club, who have built on their own property a com- 
modious and completely equipped club house, together with ten- 
nis courts, roque and clock golf, and a miniature golf course for 
ladies. 

The course has nine holes, and the powers of the enthusiastic 
golfer is brought out in many places in encountering the various 
difficult .hazards which are arranged to make his success none too 
easy. Many winter tourists come to Bradentown every year, 
preferring to play here on a good course that is far removed from 
the many crowded golf courses of thee larger communities. 

This feature of winter life in Florida attracts many people to 
Bradentown, who enjoy the club house and links from day to day. 
Rates for visitors are modest and a regular trophy list is open to 
all visiting players. All greens are perfectly kept, being planted 
in Bermuda grass. A Professional is in charge. 

FLORENCE VILLA GOLF. 

Winter Haven is fortunate in having Florence Villa, and 
Florence Villa's Golf course. 

To the golf devotee, here is offered a special inducement to 
come to this part of Florida, for on the Florence Villa golf 
course he is sure to find all that is desired for his enjoyment. 



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This nine hole course leaves nothing to be desired and is one of 
the best in the State. Unlike most links which are laid out on 
level land, the Villa course is laid out on rolling ground, some_ of 
holes being right along the shores of beautiful lakes, thus making 
both an A-1 course for the professional and a pleasing and in- 
teresting one for the novice. 

This course commends itself to every lover of the sport, ap- 
pealing both as a finished golf course and particularly on account 
of its beautiful surroundings. No where in the State is more 
scenic beauty of surroundings offered the golf player. 

Here the devotee of "the ancient and honorable game" can en- 
joy himself to his heart's content and meet some of the best golf- 
ers in the country, who come here every year to play over this 
well-known course. 

Several Polk 
County 1 akes can 
be seen at one time 
at many places on 
the course, and this 
rare mixture fo rich 
foliage and mirror- 
ed waters afford a 
delightful view to 
the enthusiastic 
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woodland scenes, 
which change in a 
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GOLF ALL THE YEAR ROUND AT FORT MYERS. 

By Donald C. Ross 

The new eighteen-hole golf course at Fort Myers, Fla., is laid 
out on a large tract of land, through pine groves. There is am- 
ple room for each hole, and no danger of congestion. Outside 
the boundry lines are large orange groves. It is located a little 
over a mile from the center of the town, and the drive out to the 
club-house along the river front is most charming. 

The soil is of a light sandy nature, particularly well suited for 
the growth of Bermuda grass, which covers the entire course with 
an excellent thick turf. The putting greens are of closely cut 
Bermuda grass, and are kept in the pink of condition. 

To relieve the flatness of the land, a great amount of work has 
been done in the way of building artificial mounds, hammocks and 
hollows, particularly in the neighborhood of the putting greens. 
The course presents a fine example of what can be done in pro- 
ducing artificially an undulating surface, on what would otherwise 
be perfectly flat land. Because of those undulations, very ac- 
curate play is required in approaching the greens. There is no 
monotony in the putting greens, as each one is different in design, 
and all have undulating surfaces and irregular outlines. 

The bunkering is very complete, and full advantage has been 
taken of the drainage ditch, which runs through the property, to 
provide diagnonal "carries" and "elbow" holes. 

The length of the course varies from 6,100 yards to 6,300 
yards, alternate tees being arranged for each hole. It is laid 'out 
in loops of nine holes, the 1st and 10th tees and 9th and 18th 
greens being adjacent to the club house. 

Each hole has its own individuality and attraction, but there 
are — as on every first-class course — some holes which call for 
special mention. Nos. 3, 9, 14, 17 and 18 are particularly fine 
holes. The tee-shot on No. 3 is across the ditch, which runs diag- 
onally, and unless the player chooses a carry of at least 160 yards, 
it is not likely that the second shot will reach the green, which 
hugs the edge of the ditch. The short player has a carry of 100 
yards from the tee, and no further trouble up to the green, but 
the length of the hole compels him to take three shots to get there, 
so that the player making two fine shots up to the hole has the 
advantage. 

The short hole, No. 14, with its raised green on the edge of 
the ditch of irregular shape, has several locations for placing the 
cup, which will all demand very accurate placing of the tee-shot. 
This green is also well guarded with pot bunkers. 

Nos. 17 and 18 are splendid g'olf holes, and as they ought to 
be, the best on the course. On each one the ditch provides a 
diagnol carry on the tee and second shots, and if the player ex- 
pects to make the green on his second, he can only do so by 
taking the long carry with each shot. The short player will not 
find those difficult, providing they place their shots on the sec- 
tions of the fair-green which is provided. 

When the course was laid out, particular care was taken to 
design it so that as far as possible, each class of players would 
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any place in the good old U. S. A. where the visiting angler can 
find more sport, and better sport, than in Florida waters, I am 
sure that many well known fishermen would like to hear about it. 

You hear every angling tourist talk about the great fishing he 
has had in other places and the big fish he has caught, and the 
large numbers he has landed. But ask him if he ever did it with 
the same day-to-day regularity that it is done in Florida, and all 
other fishing paradises, one by one, sink into oblivion, compared 
to the wonderful things that are done 
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In youthful days they learned the trick 
They did then with a crooked stick, 
A bended pin and a bit of line, 
Oh, it was fine, most mighty fine. 



The habit grew, as years advanced. 
The girl a miss, the boy in pants 
As long as dad's; and still they fished; 
They fished, but wished for larger fish. 

They wedded, and their wedding trip 
Was spent 'neath Southern skies, equipped 
This time to fish and catch real fish. 
Real Tarpon large, the king of fish. 

And so a moral here is told; 
This maiden fair, and youth so bold, 
Whose hopes in youth to minnows ran, 
In after days big things began. 

Their childish thoughts and aims and hopes 
Were only small to bigger folks; 
Small fishes did for these young kids. 
Big fishes now must take their quids. 



To bigger folks it's just the same. 
They follow out the same old game; 
Small fishes seem to satisfy 
Right up to when they up and die. 

Unless they come to where the kind 
Of real big fish will take your line, 
The kind that tug, and jump, and fight. 
And make your Home Fish seem so light. 

So light in weight, so small in size. 
That when you've really caught a prize. 
You marvel at a thing so fine 
That at your bait would care to dine. 

And thank the Lord of Folks and Fish 
That granted you this life-long wish, 
And so at last before you died 
Your great ambition satisfied. 



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Gentlemen: - 

It gives me unbounded pleasure to advise you 

that for the fourth consecutive season, the record Tarpon 

has been caught with one of your lines: the UHXU) Cuttyhunk 

was the important factor in the case, -sold In Florida under 

the brand neune of B.J..Bvans Cuttyhunk line Xhe four 

records are for the seasons of 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1918.- 
there having been no competition record in 1917, on account 
of the very abnormal conditions prevailing in the country 
at that time.... and the weights are as follows: - 

1914 190 lbs 

1915. »• 196i " 

1916 210 ■ 

1918 205 " 



The lucky angler this year was W. Ashby Jones, of Wai^e^ 
neck Va.,well known in Tarpon circles, with the added distinc- 
tion that he was also champion In 1914 

Will suggest that we find the above named lines most 
excellent articles, and very dependable... we look forward to 
next season with anticipation of a possible fifth consecutive 
victory for them. 

Thanking you for all courtesies, and trusting that the 
above announcement nay give you the satisfaction that we feel, 
in making it, we remain. 

Very truly yours, 

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even 400 king fish in a few short hours, fights with giant devil 
fish weighing a thousand pounds, or fishing for mackerel, trout, 
grouper and many other smaller varieies, where the catch often 
runs up to hundreds; all of these every day incidents to Florida 
fishermen, read like fairy tales to the uninitiated. Yet Florida 
fishermen laugh at the doubts of visiting fishermen from the North, 
and go on enjoying their favoriite sport. 

If you, kind reader, are one of old Izaak's followers, and I take 
it you are or you would not be reading so carefully this fishing 
story — if you enjoy the sport that kings enjoyed, you have chosen 
the favorite pastime of Grover Cleveland of'Joe Jefiferson and Dr. 
Van Dyke; and you have taken like a duck to water, to the sport- 
ing pleasures of Theodore Roosevelt and John Wanamaker and all 
the other dyed in the wool lovers of the game. If you have fish- 
ed off and on all your life in your local waters and thought you 
were enjoying real fishing, then come to Florida and FISH. 

Come where the sportive Spanish mackerel, lightning fast, 
strikes your minnow and rushes away with it like a house afire 
until your line makes sweet music as it rushes through the water. 
Come and fish for the channel bass where thirty pounders seize 
your bait and start to give you a battle royal the like of which 
you never knew before, and after the struggle you rub your 
aching muscles and shout with joy at your accomplishment. 
Come catch just once the mighty king fish that run in schools of 




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From Field and Stream. 

"Some Satv Fish'' 



you are a mere man and 
that you have been battling 
with what his name implies. 

Mighty sail fish, the agile 
amber jack, ferocious barra- 
cuda, sharks of many varie- 
ties, the lumbering group- 
er, big jew fish, and all the 
other six hundred varieties 
found in Florida waters, will 
cause you to gasp in wonder 
and amazement at the great 
variety of it all. 

You may be the most en- 
thusiastic fisherman in the 
State of Ohio, and may have 
caught lake and brook fish 
all your life; you may be a 
member of the Asbury Park 
Fishing Club, and landed 
some of the big seventy- 
pounders i n the Atlantic 
surf, and gone down Barne- 
gat way and struggled with 
immense channel bass; you 
may have caught the giant 
muskalonge in the St. Law- 
rence, or the salmon of the 
Canadian Rockies; but, Mr. 
Angler, you have never 
caught a Florida tarpon, and 
s o your fishing education 
has just started. 

Like little children fish- 



ing in a brook, you have been satisfied with the little 
things in life, and real things are now in store for you. 
What you have done "was fine, mighty fine." Nay, it 
has all been wonderful — wonderful sport as sport is in 
your small world of fishing sport. But, my dear sir, 
you have nevr seen sport until, with rod in hand and 
your heart in your mouth, a tarpon, the silver king of 
Florida, and the KING 
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the earth, hits your line and things begin to happen; and they hap- 
pen so fast that you grow dizzy with it all. A tug, a jerk, and 
away goes this royal resident of the deep, and he keeps on going 
until your only connection with him is about 500 feet of your small 
24-thread line which is running off your reel at a rapid rate and 
getting alarmingly near its end, and then, by miraculous man- 
euvering, you finally get him stopped. Up he goes out of the briny 
deep into the air for a jump of ten or twelve feet, and most likely, 
as you are a greenhorn, shakes the hook clear of his mouth. 

If he is well hung this performance may go on for an hour, un- 
til he becomes so exhausted that he lets you land him. That is if 
you are not too exhausted yourself to perform that feat. Can you 
imagine anything greater than sport like this, Mr. Fisherman? 
Can you imagine any- 
thing greater than to 
see your fish a dozen 
times before you land 
him? See him each 
time away out of the 
water in a desperate 
plunge to shake that 
hook out of his savage 
jaws, and at the last 
struggle, just back of 
your boat, when he has 
gone sluggishly to the 
bottom and has seem- 
ed to you as if he had 
cemented himself to 
rocks; and then, with a 
mighty rush, again 
comes up and not ten 
feet away from you, 
leap out in one more 
m i g ih t y struggle, a 
clean ten feet in the 
air, and look you 
square in the eyes in 
a mad defiance, even 
in fais last struggle for 
life and liberty. 

O r imagine your- 
self on board a motor 
boat, tearing through a 
school of kingiish, all 
eager t o take your 
squid and dash away 
at lightning speed with 
it in their mouth. Af- 
ter a gallant struggle 
you land your prize, 

perchance a twenty- t-i t^,- ^ ^ ^^ 

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before your line hits the water again you have another one hooked. 

Is there any wonder that 3'ou do not mind sore muscles or torn 
fingers, or stiffened joints, in this wonderful sport that you came 
miles to enjoy? 

Or in mackerel season, when you at times catch this smaller 
variety almost as fast as your squid hits the water, and, like rib- 
bons of silver and purple, dash away with even greater speed than 
their big cousins, the kings. But mackerel up to seven and eight 
pounds dashing away at lightning speed is rare good sport. 

And so on through the whole six hundred varieties of fish com- 
mon to Florida waters. That's the wonder of it all. Every day 
you are liable to catch something different, until finally you start 
a fishing "log- book" to make a record of the different kinds you 
catch. 

This is real Florida fishing, the kind that brings fishermen 
from all over this land of ours, and it is worth your while to make 
the trip from your home back home to enjoy it once. 

Every year they come to Florida from their homes all over the 
country; come for the wonderful Florida fishing and the healthful 
out door pleasures of landing the sport fish of Florida waters. 
They keep on coming from year to year and each year find the 
fishing just as good as the year before. 

TARPON, THE KING OF FISH 

All other Florida fishing, or fishing anywhere else, sinks into 
insignificance when compared with your struggle to land this "old 
man" of them all. He is that — and then some. Stories have been 
written and tales have been told about tarpon fishing, but each 
new one furnishes no surprises to the tarpon fisherman, for the 
simple reason that he is always ready to accept as a fact, anything 
that he hears. Go tell a seasoned tarpon fisherman the wildest, 
most improbable tale that you invented about a tarpon trip and 
he believes every word of it, for in his heart he knows it could 
have happened, and lets it go at that. 

He don't care how long it took you to land your big fish. He 
probably knows of one that took longer to land. He don't care 
how many rods you broke or how many jumps you got out of 
your fish. He knows of records to beat what you told him. The 
fact that fish jumped over your boat or into it, don't mean anything 
to him. He 'has known it to happen. That after playing your fish 
for an hour and then a shark getting most of him, is only an in- 
cident. Last year a shark got half of one of his and shark num- 
ber two took all that was left but the head, which he finally reeled 
in. In other words anything can happen when you go fishing for 
tarpon, as every tarpon fisherman knows to his sorrow, and the 
least expected is as apt to happen as the most commonplace. 

I caught my first tarpon two years ago and so I don't know 
very much about tarpon fishing. You only gather a small amount 
of the ins and outs of it in a couple of years, but I have heard the 
"knowing ones" tell about it and I am going to pass it on to you. 

We_went to Pass-a-Grille, my wife and I, late in June and ar- 
rived there at "full moon". The June full moon is the best time 
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Its real -ivork to land your fish and sometimes a shark 
gets half of him. 

and brand new cuttyhunk lines of twenty-four thread thickness, 
which just let us in under club requirements. Some experts use 
as small as nine thread lin^, but as we were not experts, and be- 
ing only "greenhorns," we played as near safe as the law allowed. 
To play nearer safe, we secured the services of George Roberts, 
one of the best tarpon guides on the West Coast of Florida. 



Tairpon Inn 

is Calling You! 



Eiglitij miles soutli of Tampa, on tlie Florida west 
coast, lie tlie famous tarpon waters of Cliarlotte Hartor. 

At its juncture witli Pine Island Sound, "Useppa tlie 
Beautiful is tlie liigliest and most picturesque of a noted 
group of islands, semi-tropical in climate and foliage, 
wnere frost is never known. 

Here is located Tarpon Inn, wliicli lias been justly 
described as "tlie most unicfue sportsman's resort in ttie 
world. Unique because on tlie outskirts of civilization, 
in tlie verij lieart of tlie greatest fisliing waters of tlie 
continent, it is a modern, up-^to-date liotel in every 
particular. 

Modern batli rooms, witli not and cold water. 

Steam lieat and sun parlor for cool days. 

Electric fans and screened porcbes for warm niglits. 

Ice and electric liglit plants in operation. 

Trap sliooting, tennis, boating, batliing and golf. 

Oranges and grape fruit juicy ripe from our own trees. 

Pineapples, cocoanuts and bananas grow bere. 

Eggs and fowls from our own liennery. 

Milk from our own dairy. 

Vegetables from our own garden. 

Sucn delicacies as tlie famous pompano, terrapin, crabs, 
clams, and oysters fresli from tlie w^ater daily. 

AND — Tlie most wonderful fisliing in tbe world. 
Tbe principal fisli, is of course, tlie tarpon. Marcb tbe 
first is tlie average date for taking tbe first tarpon, 
are, in fact, plentiful in tliis montli, and even earlier, 
it requires patience and skill to tempt tlieni to 
w^bile tbere isacliill on tbe w^ater. Tarpon are frequent 
ly taken in February, and fair catcbes are ma 
Marcb, but April and May are tbe tarpon montbs. 

During tbe real season, tbere is not a day tbat 
cannot get tarpon fisliing around Useppa Island. 

Tbere is deep fisbing w^itli cut bait in Boca G: 
Pass, botb deep fisliing and trolling witli spoons in 
tiva Pass and still-fisbing on tbe flats. 







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Tlie Izaak Walton CliiL 

Tliis cIuId organized in 191 2, witliout dues or fees of 
ami Kind, lias teconie tlie recognized autnoritii on 
tarpon lisliing. Membersnip is open to all amateurs 
lisliing in tlie waters ol Cliarlotte Harbor. A silver 
clul) button is given to eacli member taking a tarpon 
with rod and reel; wliile a gold button is given to each 
'l''0' member that takes a tarpon il not less than 1 00 pounds, 

on a line of not more than 18 threads. 

GoH 

The sportiest nine hole goli course in Florida, 
opened lor plai-j in 1916, was a revelation to those who 
w^ere accustomed to the ilat, monotonous courses com- 
mon to this State. Useppa Island is unusualkj high, 
w^ith a rolling, broken surface particularlij well adapted 
to golf. 

The course w^as planned rather than merelvj laid out, 
and its 2100 ijards so divided that evervj hole — from the 
12D vjard mashie pitch into a punch bowl green, to the 
400 Tjard home hole — is full of varietij and interest 
everij foot of the wav|. 

A good w^ater sijstem insures soft, velvetij grass on 
the putting greens at all seasons. 

A number of cup tournaments, and team matches 
w^ith nearbij clubs, have been arranged for the season, 
to w^liich guests are eligible w^ithout extra fees. 



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From Field and Stream. 

This Tarpon ^VeigUert 1^0 lbs. 



George caught the first tar- 
pon with rod and reel in 
Florida waters. Before his 
time, it is said, they har- 
pooned them. 

As a guide, George 
looked the part. He stood 
full s i X feet o f healthy, 
sturdy, rugged manhood, 
as picturesque in appear- 
ance a s some Seminole 
Chief who might have stood 
on the same spot a 'hun- 
dred years before. We 
found him coatless, hatless 
and with neither shoes nor 
stockings. Such appurten- 
ances as these were not 
needed in his profession. 
He was bronzed from head 
to foot. 

We fished three days 
and did not land a fish4 
The first day we did not 
find them at all, the next 
we got down below the 
forts and broke our crank 
shaft and had to run back 
home which took all day. 

George philosophized all 
the way home. "The for- 
tunes of War," he said, 
"Lets try it tonight." We 
went up into John's pass 
after supper and ran into 
a shower, a reg- 
ular deluge o f 
rain that drove 



us to a fisherman's sihelter, a crude hut on stilts, and 
when the rain was over, the run of fish was over — over 
the bar and out into the Gulf of Mexico. And by the 
time the fish were ready to come back, the rain came 
back, and we came back home. We were wet to the 
skin but our spirits were not dam- 
pened in the slightest and were eager 
to start out liright and early the 
next morning after tarpon again. 
We dreamed that night of what 
we would do to the tarpon the 
next day and what we would do 
to George the next day if he die 
not connect us 
with a tarpon. 

We got off to ^___ 
a good start in 



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the morning and found the fish rolling down in the old South 
•channel near the pilot station at Fort Dade. They were hungry 
that morning and I got mine right away — at least I got my chance, 
the first real chance I had had at the game so far. 

George let out a yell, a wild triumphant yell, as the fish hit my 
bait. As the hook went deep into his jaws he came straight up 
out of the water a full ten feet. "He's a LoUopalooser," shouted 
George, "he'll go a 150." 

He looked as big as a whale to me at that moment, for he was 
my first one and he was well hung. So the battle started. 

Away he went like a mad wild beast on a rampage and kept on 
going. I had six hundred feet of new line on that reel of mine, 
and for awhile I didnt care how long he kept going. With all the 
strength in both my thumbs, I kept bearing down on my leather 
thumb brake, until the running line made the leather hot and 
scorched my flesh. His going and George's yells of direction went 
to my head, and I yelled too, but still 'he kept on going. Then I 
began to wonder what would happen when he got to the end of 
the line. 

But about this time George got busy. I heard the anchor rope 
and the churn of the engine at about the same time, and not a 
second too soon either. When George got the boat in motion, 
the fish had my reel emptied to within a few yards of line. 

After a long run to the right, I got another jump out of my 
fish and succeeded in recovering fifty feet again. He followed this 
with short, sizzling dashes, straight back of the boat, with leaps 
after each rush. Another long run to the right enabled me to get 
back a lot more line and again I saw 'my fish. 

Oh, but I was getting dizzy with the mad excitement of it all 
and I began to picture how he would look when I had him mount- 
ed — my first one understand — and a hundred and fifty pounder — 
and where I had better hang him. I thought of how my friend, 
Dr. Hofifman, up in Bufifalo, who had never caught a tarpon, 




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Photo American Museum of Natural History, Ng-rt York 
The Gar is Common in Florida Waters 

would envy me my catch and all the time kept wondering if he 
would not go over hundred and fifty after all, and then I got in 
trouble. 

Something was wrong. I knew that in a minute. My giant 
antagonist in this battle royal was employing new tactics. These 
wild lushes got him no where, so he sulked. He just quietly set- 
tled to the bottom 
and refused to do 
anything btit rest. 
"Jab him, jab him," 
shouted George, 
"he's loafing o n 
you." "Make him 
rush and tire hi,m 
out." That's just 
what I was trying 
t o do. But he 
didn't rush a bit and 
I couldn't make 
him either. He was 
acting just as if he 
had found a hole in 
the bottom of the 
bay, into which he 
had crawled and 
then pulled the hole 
i n after him. I 
laid back and pulled 
and tugged, and 
then tugged some 
more. But he still 
would not let m e 
move him and I* had 
to let him have his 
own way which was 
the most madden- 
ing thing of all. 

But you cannot 
use man's strength 
against a 150 pound 

Photo American Museum, Natural History tarpon long without 

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Fifteen Tarpon Whioli V. ei^heil a Ton. 



ing. ] ha\e known a silly little thing like a mosquito causing a 
big fellow like you, dear reader to get his mad up and smash. 
When you keep on initating the mouth of a tarpon with a fish 
hook the other end of whi.c'h you are jerking, he somet/imes 
smashes. So after a W'hile my tarpon got mad, most awfully mad. 
and came up out of the water with a rush. 

He wasn't more than a hundred feet away and I could almost 
see the savage sparkle in his eye as he turned clear over in his 
inad endeavor to shake my hook out of his mouth. Away he went 
again and rushed and counter-rushed and jumped. I got seven 
beautiful jumps out of him in all. Sometime he went ten feet, on 
other aerial flights Lc only turned over and flopped himself back 
into the water. 

After his last ascension, he started on another long run, and 
it may be that he is running yet. I hate to have to write it, but 
some where in this mad rush, he tore the hook out of his mouth 
and he was gone — "Gone where the woodbine twineth," for ought 
I know, and I could have sat down and wept, I felt so bad and 
helpless. I had fought my tirst big battle, and had lost it — lost 
it to a fish. 

Every muscle in my body ached from that thirty minute fight 
with the giant tarpon. My two thumbs that had been pressing 
down all this time on my leather tlumib break, felt like a couple 
of useless things. I couldn't even wiggle them. 

George's philosophy got working again" It wasn't your fault." 
he said, "Not your fault at all, only another case of 'Fortunes of 
War." So I felt better, in spirit at least (my thumbs had no feel- 
ing at all) and proceeded to bait my hook with a new catfish. I 
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In a short time, and long before my thumbs were equal to the 
struggle, I had another strike, a fairly good sized fish, and lost it 
on the first jump. My wife contributed some excitement a few 
minutes afterwards by having the same experience. She lost her 
fish as I had lost mine. The little body sobbed, George did not 
even philosophize, as he reached into the bait box for a new cat. 
and I swore, as I gritted my teeth, but here I got a hurry call to 
business anr SOME business it proved to me. 

The Gods were good. Another tarpon 'hit my catfish not forty 
feet from the boat as the other two had, and like the others came 
right up into the air as soon as he felt the hook. 

Back into the water and the battle was on. He rushed and 
jumped and jumped again. Each desperate leap and his giant jaws 
tried in a vain endeavor to shake the hook out from them, but 
praise to all things good, the hook held fast and try as he 
might, it still held fast. 

He had fought me for forty minutes and George suggested that 
it was time to take him in. A "green horn would have said "reel 
him in," but you can't "reel in" a tarpon. Mackerel let you "reel 
them in" sometimes and 
huge kingfish become ex 
hausted and allow 
themselves to be 
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not so, a tar- 
pon. Oh no, 
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ferent meth- 
od of proce- 
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a d h e a r i-ng 
himself t o 
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w a t e r y 
depths and 
sort of 
braces him- 
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From Field and Stream. 

Tarpon Sometimes Come wjj ami Look You in the Face. 

down on your leather thumb break on your reel, you throw all 
your weight upwards with both arms in a long vigorous lift by 
main force. You do this about the same way as if you were put- 
ting one end of a long pole under the side of a house, and you 
were trying to lift the house. Then, again by main force, exerted 
through sore back and shoulder muscles, you lift your pole to about 
the angle of 45 degrees and the big fish comes in a little and the 
line gives a little. You now quickly proceed to reel in the foot 
or two of slack line you have taken away from your fish. This is 
the way, by easy stages, that you take up the four hundred feet of 
line, and land your fish, that is if your tarpon is ready to be land- 
ed, if he is not and he takes it into his head to make another 
two or three hundred yard dash he gets back all the line in the 
one rush that you have taken away from him. T'^^at is the reason 
that it takes from twenty minutes to an hour and twenty minutes 
to land a arpon. 

Well I kept on fighting my fish like old Izaak Walton would 
have fought him, if Izaak had ever hooked a tarpon, and after 
nearly three quarters of an hour of the hardest work I ever did 
rny life, with every muscle in my body rebelling at the struggle, 
and with a pair of paralyzed digits that had been feelingless for 
half the time, I got my fish. 

He made one last savage jump just back of the boat, where 
he leaped up straight into the air and glared into my face with a 
defiant toss of his head. He was beaten and he knew it but he 
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His struggle was over and he let 
me "reel him in", and George gaffed 
him. 

We came home then. It was 
enough for one day. Who could 

ask for a greater triumph. On the 
way back we got caught by another 
shower, but we didn't care a bit. I 
got very wet and my wife got very 
wet, and George got soaked through. 
but none of us minded the wetting 
a bit, we were all so happy that lit- 
tle things like this did not count. 
What was a mere wetting to me 
when I had just landed a big tarpon, 
and my first one at that. 

Fred D. Ellsworth, one of the best 
known fishing writers in the country 
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Eliminate this and the allurement 
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FLORIDA DEVIL FISH 

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and greatly resemble its more puny cousin the whip ray, whose 
body is spotted. The still smaller variety and the most common 
one of all is the sting ray that every fisherman knows. 

Dr. Coles captured one of these giant creatures in 1914 which 
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Russell J. Coles Killing' Devil Fish 

-Photo American Museum of Natural History, New York. 



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Theodore Roosevelt, the Proud Captor of a Florida Devil Fish 

— Photo by Russell J. Coles. 

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it revolves rapidly, edge-wise, one pectoral disappearing as the 
other rises straight up and describes the arc of a circle, to be fol- 
low^ed in like manner, by the tail, which stands out absolutely 
rigid in the adults. 

The color of the back of the Manta is dead black * * * * 
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and the Manta in- 
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of the creature, another huge Manta rus|i'ed up from below, strik- 
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propeller blades were not catching the water now, and for a short 
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devils of the sea. . ^ 

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of the two madly frightened Manta beneath us, the boat was flung 
from their backs and was turning over when I shouted 'high side,' 
which order was instntly obeyed, two of the men, except for an 
arm and a leg, throwing themselves entirely out of the boat. The 
boat shipped a lot of water over her bow, but we were now clear 
of the two Manta, who raced together on thel, surface for some 
distance." --iC; 

Devil fishing as a sport really became popular in the winter of 
1916, when ex-president Roosevelt came to Florida in company 
with Russel J. Coles and spent many exciting hours in harpoon- 
ing devil fish. The Colonel had shot big game in Africa, and 
hunted about everything in the way of game or fish at home, but 
he waxed enthvisiastic over this new sport in an article in Scrib- 
ner's the next autumn, and I have it on good authority that he 




Roo.sevelt and Coles -^vith T\vo liarjve Devil Fish 

— Photo by Coles. 



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A Big Catch of Amber Jack 

was coming back to Florida again last winter, had he lived. 
Harpooning devil fish is an exciting, dangerous sport, that re- 
quires cool heads and steady nerves. The Colonel was a sports- 
man after that type, and was instrumental in the killing of a 
num'ber of big devil fish. He tells in Scribners of the capture of a 
giant fish that so far is known, was second in size to the large 
one killed by Dr. Coles in 1914. It measured sixteen feet eight 
inches and it took twenty-six minutes to kill him. The great fish 
had towed the boat over two miles and at one time during the 
struggle came up under the boat itself and nearly overturned it. 
This huge devil fish and a smaller one measuring thirteen feet 
,two inches from tip to tip are shown in the illustrations. 

LOCAL WATERS ATTRACT PROMINENT ANGLERS 

Florida's wonderful fishing attracts the lovers of the sport from 
all walks of life and from all points of the compass. They come 
here from every State in the Union and enjoy to their hearts con- 
tent all the pleasures that only a true fisherman is thoroughly con- 
versant with. 

With the first run of king fish in the early spring comes an 
influx of fishermen. They come singly, in pairs and in little groups 
and join their brother anglers who have been here all winter to try 
conclusions with the less game varieties. 



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A little later the tarpon fish- 
erman arrives. Some for a week 
or two while the more" fortu- 
nate ones spend the whole sea- 
son. Many engage guides from 
the year before, who wire them 
when the first fish appear. 

WANAMAKER COMES 
EVERY YEAR 

One of the most ardent lov- 
ers of Florida fishing is John 
Wanamaker, who comes to the 
West Coast every winter and 
spends three months fishing in 
the Gulf of Mexico. 

"The Gadfly" is a most com- 
modious yacht with every' mod- 
ern equipment, but the "Mer- 
chant Prince" is a true sports- 
man and when it's time to fish, 
leaves his luxuriously appointed 
floating palace and goes out for 
miles on the bliie waters of the 
Gulf in a weather-beaten fishing 
boat. 

Last winter Mr. Wanamaker 
made the record one-man catch 
of king fish. He and his guide 
caught 1,437 pounds of fisn. There were 249 in all and the old 
gentleman landed 147 of them. This catch was made at Pass-a- 
Grille. He fished every day during the big run of king fish and 




John Wanamaker on His 
Yacht "Gadfly" 




.John W anaiiiJikt'r iiiid 40(l-l'oiin<l JtMv Kish 



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— From Field and Stream,. 



later went clown to Punta Gorda for the early run of Tarpon. 
It's his annual outing — this Florida fishing trip every year — 
and he thoroughly enjoys every day of it. It prolongs his 
life and makes him forget business and business cares. Mr. Wana- 

maker caught the big 400- 

pound jew fish in the il- 
lustration while at Punta 
Gorda. The other figure 
in the group is George 
Roberts, who is Mr. Wan- 
amaker's guide for the en- 
tire three months. 

ZANE GREY ENJOYS 
FLORIDA FISHING 

Zane Grey, who wrote 
"The Riders of the Purple 
Sage" and a number of 
other well known books 
that red-blooded Ameri- 
cans have read; but per- 
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hundred of anglers as a 
gentleman fisherman who 
writes in "sport" maga- 
zines about his experi- 
ences here in Florida. He 
caught the record catch of 
bonefish shown in the il- 
lustration, under which he 
used the caption, "Three 
Flashes of Molten Silver," 
in his story in Field and 
Stream in August, 1918. 
Zane Grey has caught ev- 




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William Farniim, the Fox Film Stai- 

cry variety of fish that most any other sportsman has caught in 
salt water, yet he says in his story, "To date, in all my (fis'hing 
experience, I consider this 'bonefish achievement the most thrill- 
ing, fascinating, difficult and instructive. ... I feel almost 
certain that if I spent another month bonefishing, I would become 
obsessed and perhaps lose my enthusiasm for catching other kinds 
of fish." And Zane Grey has caught big' tarpon in these same 
Florida waters, giant muscallonge and salmon in the North and 
the mighty tuna in the Catalina Islands. 

Friends, a bonefish, sometimes called a lady fish in Florida, is 
proba'bly next to a mackerel, the fastest thing of its size that 
sports scales and fins. "It strikes your bait like a streak of light- 
ning and goes away like a house afire." And as Grey adds, "A 
bonefish is so incredibly fast that it was a long time before I 
could believe the evidence of my own eyes. He is the wisestj, 
shyest, wariest, strangest fish I ever studied. No salmon, no 
barracuda, no other fish celebrated for swiftness of motion is in 
his class." 

On the recommendation of a fisherman and sportsman like 
Zane Gre}^ it's worth the while of every fisherman to try con- 
clusions with at least one bonefish. 

THEY ALL COME FISHING 

Florida gets them all. Ex-President, ex-cabinet officers, noted 
authors, real honest-to-goodness governors and even so many 
lesser lights in the political world and world of art and literature. 

Also come the movie stars. George Walsh spent several 
weeks in Tampa this winter in the making of a new film play, and 
went fishing. William Farnum fished here last winter and later 
in the season caught his first tarpon. They all come and enjpy 




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Florida's wonderful fishing. Even 
Billy Sunday took an occasional 
day off from his evangelistic en- 
deavors while in Tampa last win- 
ter and enjoyed some good days 
of the sport in Old Tampa Bay 
waters. 

WHERE TO FIND THE BEST 
FISHING 

Ask any member of the St. 
Petersburg Tarpon Club, where 
all the big salt water fish con- 
gregate, and he will tell you that 
all the good tarpon fishing, all 
the runs of king fish and mack- 
erel, all the many schools of 
channel bass and amber jacks, 
and all the grouper and trout in 
Florida waters, congregate up 
and down and around the Pinellas 
Peninsula. That from Clearwater 
Harbor down through Boco 
Ceiga Bay and into Tampa Bay 
and through John's Pass, Blind 
Pass and Pass-a-Grille, and 
through the north channel and 
southwest channel around Eg- 
mont Key is found all the fishing. 

Talk to fishermen at Manatee 
River points. Up Bradentown 
way, Palmetto, Palma Sola and 
over about Anna Maria, and you 
hear that here's the place to fish. 

Down at Sarasota and Long 
Boat Key is the center of all 
Florida fishing. So it is at Boca 
Grande, and when you get to 
Fort Myers, that's the only place. 

Useppa Island waters afford 
most wonderful fishing grounds 
and members of the Izaak Wal- 
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by all that's holy, that here is the 
place where all the big fish as- 
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tory convention. 

So let's be honest about it all. 

The farther south you go the 
sooner you get the run of fish 
that comes that way. But then it 
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Punta Grrda claims the 
best fishing grounds. Boca 
Grande will fight over the 
title. Down at Venice they 
laugh at any other place 
daring to make a claim, and 
baiasota fishermen say any- 
body's crazy to give any 
other place a look in. And 
so it goes. 

What's the d'.fiference 
which place has the best 
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The more you fish in 
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You come here thinking you are about the most enthus 
fisherman that ever handled a rod, and start in as all fisherme 
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tame these big fishing yarns of yours must have seemed to real 
Florida fishermen. 

Things happen in bunches when you fish in Florida waters. It's 
real action from the first drop of the flag, and it's some merry race 
all the way. The most wonderful thing about it all is, that it's a 
different kind of sport every day. 

With Florida's six hundred varieties of game fish, a new notch 
is added to your rod but on each trip, and the wise visiting fisher- 
man adds a camera to his fishing outfit. You will need this ac- 
cessory to make your friends back home believe some of the fish- 
ing stories you will tell when you go back North. 

And here is the truest thing of all; you don't have to sneak in 
the back way when you return from fishing trips in Florida, and 
you don't have to buy a string of fish on your way home to prove 
to your wife and friends that you are a real fisherman. 

You don't have a chance to pull that sort of thing on your wife 
in Florida anywhere, for it's dollars to nickels that your wife is 
one of the party on the trip. 

Florida fishing is so filled with real sport that there are almost 
as many lady members as there are men. The fishing clubs 
have many lady members, and special prizes are offered to the 
champion women an- 
glers. Many a damaged 
skirt and scores o f 
shirtwaists torn to rib- 
bons, are offered on the 
altar of devotion to this 
favorite sport, but big, 
king fish and giant tar- 
pon have been the 
prizes that caused the 
damage. 

But these things 
happen more often to 
lady novice, for today 
the expert lady angler 
dresses the part and 
goes big fishing in kha- 
ki waist and trousers, 
and fights her fish as 
skillfully as her hus- 
band. 

Why not join this 
company o f Florida 
fishermen and fisherwo- 
men. Get into the lime- 
light and start carving 
your names i n The 
Fisherman's Hall of 
Fame. Start by cultiva- 
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how the habit will grow 
until you find your- 
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same kind of Fsihing Fans as all the others who have tried it. 

"Some Shark" the boys are landing on the preceding page. 
Would'nt you be proud to go home with the picture of a hundred 
pound shark that you had landed? A shark is not a sport fish 
you say. Did you ever land a big one? Try it some day. 

LEARN HOW AND THEN DO IT 

"A rod and a hook, and a bit of line; 

A pipe and a book, oh it's mighty fine; 

A tug and a jerk, then a mackerel fine; 

What joy, and what sport, is this game of mine." 
The fellow who wrote this jingle was not a Florida fisherman. 
A bit of line won't do in these waters; about 600 feet is the regu- 
lation length of a full grown reel supply and at times he needs 
every inch of it. If he is wise, he will leave his favorite meerschaum 
at home and use a corn cob. One never knows what may happen 
to a pipe with a real fish on your line, as for books— ye shades 
of old Izaak Walton! Who ever heard of a Florida fisherman 
having time to even read the title of a book on a fishing trip? 
Of course things go wrong some times, but these t;mes are so re- 
mote that if one wants to fish in Florida waters he will do well to 
straightway forget the book as part of fishing outfit. 

"But what is there here to catch?" asks a new comer, a Mr. 
Gates from the North. "I fished all the afternoon of the dock 
and all I caught was cat fish, and every time I caught one, an old 
man stood near by, laughed and said, 'They're no good, my son, 
nobody eats them but niggers.' This is no fishing country. I'm 
going on farther, where there is real fishing." 

_ Why, you unsophisticated one, you are like the fellow attend- 
ing a rich, rippling musical comedy, who has his eyes lifted to a 
level with the high heels of the first row of the chorus girls. Lift 



246 RINALDI'S OFFICIAL GUIDE BOOK 

up your eyes, oh ye Gates, and keep them lifted up. Are they up? 
Well, then, tell me truly, Mr. Gates, will you ever look down to 
the level of the orchestra pit again? Oh, course not. 

Well, then, forget "fishing on the docks." Forget such foolish- 
ness and go fishing. Get hold of some good mariner bold, who 
knows every fishing place in the bay — a man personally acquainted 
with every fish on the coast, by Heck, and go fishing. 

You will find such men who will take you out to where there 
are fish, and you will catch them too. Florida fish are accom- 
modating, and if you offer them the right inducement, will show 
astonishmg eagerness to get acquainted with you. 

The waters are teeming with fish, and are waiting to be caught. 
There are over 600 varieties and sizes up to where you will be 
willing to cut your line and let the monster have his freedom be- 
fore he breaks your tackle and gets it for himself. 

So, Mr. Fisherman, why kick about the fishing? You are just 
in wrong, my boy. Start in right and fish. You wouldn't fish 
at home in a rain barrel or a bath tub. So get right, here. The 
fish are here and are ready to be caught. Frst get right tackle 
and right bait and then get the right guide. That's all there is to it. 

One of the things about Florida fishing is that you never get 
tired of it. Almost everywhere else you have fished there are 
days at a time when the fish refuse to bite, and unless you are a 
real "bred in the bone" fisherman, you lose interest in the sport. 

This is not the case when you fish in Florida waters. The fish 
are so plentiful and seem so anxious to bite, that you rarely ever 
experience a poor day's sport. If you go trout fishing it's no un- 
common thing to catch 100 or more. If it's grouper and you don't 
catch so many, you are sure to make it up in the size of you^ fish. 
Twenty pound groupers are common, and they are caught up to 
thirty-five pounds. 

There are nearly four hundred pounds of grouper in the catch, 
in the lower group of fish pictures on page 211, the largest one 
weighing 20 pounds, and this was no unusual day's sport. 

Don't go home without a day's fishing in Florida. If you fish 
at home and think you have enjoyed real fishing, try fishing here. 
Here is where you will get real fishing, and acquire an experience 
that will enable you to go back home and brag about what you 
did in Florida. 

Acquire this fishing habit early on your visit. Do the thing in 
easy stages. Go trout fishing the first time. A party of three or 
four ought to easily catch seventy-five or more. They try a grouper 
trip or two, and when the mackerel comes the real sport begins. 
A little later it's king fish, and last of all stay and catch a tarpon 
and master the pastmaster of all the world's sport fish. 

Fishing clubs give medals for doing this — when you have caught 
one you will understand why. 



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THE SPORTIVE BLACK BASS 

The average tourist fisherman may hear 
all about the wonderful Tarpon fishing in 
the Gulf of Mexico; or of the great schools of 
king fish and mackerel that appear off its 
shores every Spring, but unless he is a fol- 
lower of Fresh Water Fishing, it is doubtful 
if he knows very much about the wonderful 
bass fishing of this State. 

The Floridian is very apt to speak of his 
day's catch as a catch of trout, for the North- 
ern black bass is very familliarly called a 
trout in Southern lakes and that may help to 
mislead the visiting fisherman. 

But if you are a lover of the wonderful 
sport of fishing and have enjoyed it away 
up there in your Northern home, by all means 
try it here in South Florida, and you will 
have. a few things to tell your fishing friends 
about when you go home. 

To begin with, you will be handicapped if 
you come by train and leave your, auto at 
home; and even if you bring your car along, 
you will likely leave your boat at home. But 
as a matter of fact after knowing where to 
go and how to get there, a boat is the thing 

you will need most of all. Of course there are lots of places in 
Florida where you can get right off of a train, go to a hotel and 
the next morning walk right down to the banks of the town's lake, 
or in many places to the town's many lakes, and pro- 
cure a boat and go fishing. 

But if you are really sophisticated in the wonderful 
art of angling it will take you but a moment to figure 
out that a lake of that kind is not the kind of a lake 
you are looking for. And because Florida has hun- 
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one county that has over 1,000 lakes, and towns that have over 
twenty lakes within the city limits; then go twenty miles away 
from these thickly populated places and find hundreds of lakes 
both lalrge and small that are teemig with fish where there is 
just as good fishing as hose town lakes had years before, at a time 
when they were seldom fished. 

To get this good fishing it is better to secure the assistance of 
some local fisherman who knows where to go and is willing to 
show you the way. He knows of many such fishing grounds and 
he has his favorite ones that he secretly cherishes as his own 
particular finds. 

No, this is the way he goes fishing and its the way he will in- 
troduce you on your first visit to the Florida great out-of- 
doors. You will find the Florida fresh water angler equipped with 
a two-wheel trailer, which he will attach to the rear of his car. 
On this trailer is attached his boat in which is stored a tent and 
camping equipment. If he is a dyed-in-the-wool fresh water fish- 
erman he will call a start in the early afternoon and after procur- 
ing a small quantity of provisions, ice, etc., he will drive from ten 
to fifty miles to his particular fishing grounds. He will make 
camp at once and then go out on the lake and catch supper. 

A night in the woods is a part of the angler's experience and 
one of the most enjoyable ones of the whole trip. 

Up again in the early morning, just as the first grey streaks of 
dawn appear in the east, a hasty breakfast eagerly devoured, for 
a night in the woods is sure to make you ravenously hungry, and 
you are out on the lake again by the time the sun comes up, often 
like a big ball of fire across the rippling waters. 

You push your boat out into the lake; ahead of you is an old 
tree top that has fallen into the water. It looks "Bassy" and you 
cast. The minnow no more than strikes the water when zippeeee, 
away goes your line and the revolutions of your reel make pleas- 
ing music to your ears. In a moment you have him checked, if 
only for a minute and again he fights you in sizzling little runs to 
left and right. Again youc heck him and start to bring him in, 
but he still fights. And so the battle rages. The end is in sight 
and the giant bass knows it at his end of the line almost as soon 
as you do at yours, but he is game to the last and even when you 
guide him to the side of the boat and lift him in, the look in his 
eye is still defiant. 

He weighed a full five pounds. Perchance he weighed more. 
They get them up to fifteen pounds, sometimes, but this is rare. 
They are oftener under five than over it, but you get many large 
ones. That's the reason black bass fishing is great sport in 
Florida. Up in your country, Mr. Visiting Fisherman, if you 
catch a dozen you think you have had a fine day. 

But can this be done every day? you ask. Not every day, but 
the Florida fisherman and his friend will get their fifty as often as 
as you will your dozen and he will bet you that his five largest 
will double the weight of your five largest. 

But you grumble a little at Florida conditions. How are you 
to get out to these good places, and how are you to find some 
fellow who knows where they are that can be induced to take you 
there. That is your problem, Mr. Fisherman, and its the real rea- 
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If some good Samaritan 
built a real road to all the 
good Florida bass lakes and 
put up sign boards telling 
where a 1 1 their favorite 
feeding grounds were, in a 
few short years Florida Bass 
Fishing would not be any 
better than the bass fishing 
in New Jersey and Dela- 
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If you are a devotee of 
this game, however, come 
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rod in your trunk and ask 
the clerk at your hotel the 
name of the most enthus- 
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fisherman and the fact does 
not stick out all over you, 
don't try it for he wont see 
the ear marks when you call 
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that you shake hands and 
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Hog Fishermen, and gladly 
put a V. siting angler "wise" 

on sight. And you ask about the things to bring along. Why 
just the same things you use at home. Any two fishing bugs in 
Florida will argue the relative merits of their own boat and tackle 
just the same as your fr.end Bill, who fishes with you up home, 
will tell you that you make a mistake to use a white wabbler 
while he uses a fly and all the time you know that any fly fisher- 
man could do better with a wa'bbler. 

The fellow who uses pork rind thinks that a wooden caster 
is wasting his time, and some fishermen would rather have a frog 
than any of your foolish folderoUs. And so it goes the world 
over. If it w3s not so, there would only be one bait advertised 
in the sporting magaz nes and the others would all go out of 
business. And probably if any fisherman only used one kind of 
bait, even though it was the best bait, there would be times that 
he would not catch any fish. 

So bring along your assortment, just the same as you keep it 
on hand at home. You have the same right to show angling 
temperament down here under Southern conditions as you did at 
home. If you feel that a bass wants a red lure use a red oiie; 
■f your idea is one of pure white, its your privilege to give him 
a white one; the same with one of silver or even one of gold. 

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Some fishermen go out and catch black bass — and big one 
too — ^on a white rag and two feet of line attached to a reed pole. 
They mostly do this at night and pull them in hand over hand, 
letting the pole stick out the back of the boat until they get their 
fish. This is not sport of course, but its fun to them; just as 
much fun to them as your fun is tc5 you with a hundred dollar out- 
fit and seventeen kinds of line. 

Sometimes black bass have been caught with a white rag when 
they would not strike a many colored lure. 

A day and a night ofi a bass trip is a delightful experience, 
particularly the night in camp. You are enchanted with the mys- 
teries of the night. Fancied shadows dart across the light of your 
camp fire, or form themselves in ghostlike figures from the smoke 
of the fire itself. 

You light your fire and dream as you look into the glowing 
blaze or tell your companion stories of other camping trips and 
he comes back at you with one better; and some how or other the 
dreams get mixed up with your experience and another new fishing 
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"Good roads" are what the tourist is looking for. Beautiful 
scenery, excellent hotel accommodations and quamt places of in- 
terest are important items in his itinerary, but good roads over 
which to spin along in his motor car mean a hundred times more. 

Years ago he came to Florida for its climate and its scenery, 
and to get away from the frozen Northland, and left his car at 
home. Today it's a different story. The world is motor mad, and 
when you go away your car goes along, and you go in it. 

Florida, as a State, has been alive to this condition of affairs, 
and county after county is getting into line to make their roads the 
best in the State. Over $18,000,000 has been spent on Florida roads 
in the past five years. 

The visitor from the North a few years ago ridiculed Florida's 
sandy roads. Today he marvels at her State and county paved 
highways, and shell paved by-ways, and her many beautiful boule- 
vards of asphalt and concrete construction. 

Tourists coming here in their cars are enthusiastic over the 
new roads that have been built in Florida, and to a man will tell 
you that they are the best they have found since they left the big 
centers of population in the North. 

After sandy roads in other neighboring States, the brick and 
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Florida roads now cover the State in every direction, and 
pass through a constant change of beautiful scenery, each particu- 
lar place vieing with the other as to a more pleasing scene than 
the other one. 

You flit through a county of lakes and streams, where beauti- 
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to the weary traveler from the distant North. 

Beautiful groves of orange and grapefruit afford marvelous col- 
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offer their most startling contract in colors. 




A little farther on and you travel through an agricultural sec- 
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early vegetables in January, and if you pause at some railway 
station and see the enormous quantities of the truck that is ship- 
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but you marvel at them all the same. 

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the low rolling hills afford an entirely different view. There are 
no mountains in Florida, no very large hills, but Florida's hilly 
lands presents a country of rare scenic beauty, and is one of the 
pleasing differences in the general view of things in general. 

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pines, her graceful palms, her sandy beaches, and the ever-chang- 
ing beauty of her bays and streams astound the visitor and make 
him wish to linger everywhere he goes. 

That's the reason why so many visiting tourists have become 
visiting autoists and go about from place to place in their cars, 
and visit many wonderful places far from the beaten tracks of 
travel. 

Since Florida awoke to the necessity of building real roads, 
the number of tourists have increased materially, and each year 
sees more of them. 

Go to any big Florida town and you marvel at the number 
of other State auto licenses you see. You see them from every 
State in the Union, from every city and every town in most all 
the States. A big Buick from Montana passes an Overland from 
Indiana, and in the opposite direction is a speeding Packard from 
New York. Later an Oldsmobile from the rock-ribbed coast of 
Maine toots its Claxon to a little old Ford from farther away. 
They are all here, all makes, from all States, and all come to 
Florida with their pfecious loads of pleasure and health seekers, 
all having a good time and all here to see all there is to be seen 
and enjoy it immensely. 

You wonder where they all go, these visiting autoists, and you 
conjecture as to the difficulties they encountered on the way. 
Mountain roads on the way from home, dangerous hills and deep 
sand, and all the hazards of the trip. 

Here at last in Florida to enjoy her beautiful scenery and bright 
sunshine, and best of all, her many good paved roads. 

And these visitors tell you all this every chance they have, and 
congratulate Floridians on having much better roads than those 
of most nay State they have passed through. 

Another visiting autoist you meet today that you did not see a 

few years ago. 

These come prepar- 
ed to make their 

cars their abiding 

places all the time 

they are here. Auto 

camping parties are 

plentiful in Florida 

in the winter sea- 
. son. . Some bring 

and camp b y the 

wayside, others 

build tents over the 

ca^ and by various 

devices string bunks 

and hammocks 

across the seats. 
Certainly there 

is no better place 

anywhere to enjoy 

this sort of thing 

than Florida. The 

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Out of oil again 

Few^ motorists realize that 
half of ordinary oil is 
wasted by excessive 
evaporation. 



Ttfiles from home, your engine 
overheats, your radiator boils and 
you have to stop. Out of oil! 
Yet you started with a full sup- 
ply, more than enough, you felt 
sure, to bring you safely home 
again. 

The intense heat developed in an 
engine — 200 degrees to 1,000 de- 
grees F. causes ordinary oil ito 
•evaporate rapidly. 

Ho-vv^ to Prevent Waste 

■Only an oil that resists heat will 
p,revent rapid evaporation and 
waste. In laboratory tests, as 
-well as in road tests, some oils 
make a very poor showing, their 
losses by evaporation running 
twice as high as Veedol, the lu- 
bricant that resists heat. The 
.average loss in ordinary Oils is 
40 per cent more than in Veedol. 
Laboratory tests for evaporation 
show that oils which evaporate 
rapidly also form large quanti- 
ties of sediment which has no 
lubricating value and which in- 
creases the wear on the working 
parts of an engine. 

The Hidden Toll Taken by Sediment 

Ninety per cent of engine trou- 
bles are caused by the sediment 
found when inferior oil breaks 
down under the heat of the 
engine. , x ^i. 

'This sediment crowds out the 



good oil which should form a lu- 
bricating film between the cylind- 
er walls and pistons, and other 
fast-moving parts. Damage re- 
results, which can be repaired 
only by means of costly replace- 
ments. This is the hidden toll 
taken by sediment in your oil. 

Show^ing Sediment formed after 
500 Miles of Running 

After thousands o f laboratory- 
experiments and road tests, Vee- 
dol engineers discovered a new 
method of refining by which a 
lubricant is produced which re- 
sists heat. This is the famoua 
Faulkner Process, exclusively 
used for the production of Veedol, 
the scientific lubricant. 
The striking superiority of Veedol 
is clearly shown by the illustra- 
tion of the two bottles at the top 
of the page. The left hand bot- 
tle of ordinary oil after a test run 
shows seven times as much sedi. 
ment as Veedol. Veedol, shown 
in the right hand bottle, reduces 
sediment by 86 per cent. 

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Paved Drives in Tampa Suburbs 

awakened to her opportunities, and everywhere you go you find 
that new roads have recently been finished. 

Another thing, Florida is building roads for permanency and 
realizes that well built roads at the beginning mean economy in 
the end. The wonderful scenic attractions of the State brings 
hundreds of tourists here, and future travel will become heavier 
and heavier. So with that end in view Florida road construction 
has been made with a view of having these roads withstand not 
only the heavy hauling of Florida truck and farm produce, but 
to withstand the ravages of speed of thousands of touring, sight 
seeing visitors. 

Many miles of good shell and hard surfaced roads are also 
found everywhere you go. The old sandy trails so common in 
Florida up to a very short time ago are rapidly disappearing, and 
in a comparatively short time will pass away like the red men 
whose footsteps first laid them out in their pilgrimages from one 
place to another in the State. 

Florida good roads have made possible the establishing of a 
network of passenger motor buses, which operate between 
all the principal towns on the West Coast. It is now possi- 
ble to leave Tampa in the early morning and go all the way to the 
East Coast the same day. Numerous shorter lines are in operation. 



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you." But this condition of affairs is becoming a thing of the 
past, and now but very few stretches of really bad roads are en- 
countered, if the tourist will follow regular beaten tracks of travel. 

The following routes have been carefully planned by an ex- 
pert on the subject, who has been over the roads and found them 
as described. Minute directions of finding the way between short 
distance points have not been given on account of lack of space, 
but in almost every case local road signs point the way. 

CHICAGO TO FLORIDA. 
Chicago to Indianopolis, Ind 206.1 

Via Hammond, Hanover, Lake Village, Remington, La Fay- 
ette, Frankford and Lebannon. 

Pavement, gravel and stone road. (Good.) 
Indianapolis to Louisville, Ky 134.7 

Via Franklin, Columbus, Seymour, Brownstown and Salem. 

Gravel and stone, thirteen miles dirt road, balance stone road 

(Shorter routes are shown but this way has best roads.) 
Louisville to Cave City, Ky 88.4 

Via West Point, Elizabethtown and Munfordville. (Dixie 

Highway.) 

Stone road all the way. 
Cave City to Nashville, Tenn 112.2 

Via Glasglow Junction, Bowling Green, Russellville and 

Springfield. (Dixie Highway.) 

Nearly all stone and macadam. 
*Nashville to Huntsville, Ala 114.8 

Via Murfeesboro, Shelbyville, Fayetteville and Meridianville. 
Gravel and stone roads. (Good.) 

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Huntsville to Gadsden, Ala 78.0 

■ Via Cottonville, Guntersville, Boaz and Attalla:. 
Fairly good dirt road for 25 miles, then ten miles of deep ruts. 
Not so bad in dry weather, but very bad in wet weather. Bn_ 
ter Guntersville iby crossing- over Tennessee River on ferry, 
which operates from sunrise to sunset. A mountain road to 
Boaz, then nine more miles of bad road that requires chains 
in -vs^et weather, and then fair gravel road to Gadsden. 

Gadsden to Rome, Ga 65.0 

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Rome to Atlanta, Ga 69.1 

Via Cartersville and Mar- 
ietta. (Dixie Highway.) 
Gravel and clay road. 

Chatanooga, Tenn. to Atlan- 
. . ta, Ga 124.0 

Via Dalton. (Dixie High- 
way.) 
Road fairly Good. 

Chattanooga, Tenn. to Atlan- 
ta, Ga 138.0 

Via Rome. (Dixie High- 
way.) 
Road fairly good. 

Atlanta to Macon, Ga. . . 94.1 

Via Brownsville. (Dixie 

Highway.) 

Clay and gravel road, some 

sand. (Good.) 

*Macon to Thomasville, 

Ga 136.0 

Via Americus. 
Dirt road. (Only fair.) 
Thomasville to Lake City, Fla. 

Via Quitman, Madison and 

Live Oak. 

Dart road all the way. (Fair 

condition.) 

Lake City to Gainesville 49.9 

Via High Springs and Al- 
achua. 
Fair dirt roads. 

Gainesville to Ocala.... 43.6 

Via Micanopy and Mcin- 
tosh. 
Sand and dirt road. (Poor.) 

Ocala to Orlando 84.3 

Via Leesburg, Tavares and 
Mount Dora. 

Brick, shell and asphalt all 
the way. 

Orlando to Haines City 40.2 

Via Kissimmee, Loughman 

and Davenport. 

Brick and concrete road. 

Haines City to Lakeland 24.5 

Via Lake Alfred and Au- 

burndale. 

Shell and asphalt. 



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On the Tamiami Trail Between Sarasota and Venice 

Haines City to Lakeland 41.5 

Via Florence Villa, Winter Haven and Bartow. 
Brick and asphalt all the way. 17 miles farther this way 
but better roads and more picturesque route. 

Lakeland to Tampa 33.1 

Via Plant City. 

Brick and Shell, about 3 males of latter north of Plant City. 

NEW YORK TO FLORIDA 

New York City to Philadelphia 95.4 

V.a Newark, Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Trenton. (Cross 
Dela.ware river bridge into Pennsylvania at Trenton.) 
Macadam and asphalt roads all the way. (Best on the trip.) 

Philadelphia to Washington, D. C 144.0 

Via Wilmington, Del. and Baltimore. 
Macadam and gravel roads. (Good.) 

Washington, D. C. to Richmond, Va. 133.0 

Via Dumfries, Fredericksburg and Coatsville. 
Here you encounter the Chopawanisic Swamp section. Most 
of this road has been concreted, but atill some poor, particu- 
larly in "wet weather. 

Richmond to Durham, N. C . . • • 168.0 

Via Petersburg, Dinwiddle, South Hill, Clarksville and Ox- 
ford. 

Good sandy clay, and gravel, roug'h in places near Clarksville. 

There is a cut off of 14 miles, starting at South Hill. Only 

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Tampa's Bayshore Boulevard a Delight to the Autolst 

Durham to Pinehurst, N. C 89.0 

Good sandy clay roads. 
Pinehurst to Columbia,S. C ■ • 147.0 

Via Cheraw and Camden. 

All sandy clay road, bad near Cheraw. Ferry below Camden 

which charges half dollar. 

Columbia to Augusta, Ga , 76.6 

Via Aiken. 

Sandy clay in excellent condition. 

Augusta to Macon, Ga 126.9 

Via Thomson and Milledgeville. 

Sandy clay all the way. Slippery in wet weather. 

From Macon take Chicago route. 

BUFFALO TO FLORIDA 

Buffalo to New York City 448.5 

Via Syracuse (1.54 miles, Utica (49.9 miles), Albany via 
Schnnectady (95.0 miles), Poughkeepsie (75.3 miles) and 
then route as above. 
All oiled macadam, in fine condition. 

Buffalo to Cleveland, O • • 204.1 

Via Erie, Pa. 
Macadam in g-ood condition. 

Cleveland to Columbus, O • • . . • 169.7 

Via Elyria, Sullivan, Plymouth and Mount Gilead. 
Macadam, brick and concrete. All in good condition. 

Columbus to Cincinnati, O 108.5 

\'ia London, Xenia, Waynesville Leabannon and Reading. 
Gravel and stone roads to Mason and balance macadam. (Good) 

Detroit to Cincinnati, O 283.0 

Via Toledo, Lima, Dayton. (Dixie Highway.) 
Briclv, concrete and macadam, all good. 

Cincinnati to Lexington, Ky 85.5 

Via Covington, Williamston and Georgetown. 
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Lexington to Louisville, Ky ••...... 79.6 

Via Versailles, Frankfort, Shelbyville and Middletown. 
Follow Chicago route from Louisville. 
Stone and macadam. 

DOWN THE EAST COAST. 

There are good roads all the way from Jacksonville to Miami 
folowing the Dixie Highway, a brick road to St Augustine. Brick 
shell and asphalt to Daytona, by way of Bunnell, Ormond and 
Sea Breeze. From St. Augustine the route follows the Indian 
River through New Smyrna, Titusville, Cocoa, Rockledge and 
New Gallic, Melbourne, Vera, Fort Pierce, Stuart, Palm Beach, 
Lakeworth, Delray, Fort Lauderdale and Miami.. 

Tourists coming to Florida over the routes described above, 
who are going to points farther South on the East Coast, leave 
the routing at Mount Dora and take East Coast road at New 
Smyrna. 

Mount Dora to Sanford 24.1 

Good brick and asphalt roads. 
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No city in Florida has better paved streets than those found 
in Tampa. Miles and Miles of brick streets, many more of wood 
and asphalt blocks, and others of concrete and asphalt, greet the 
visiting autoist and offer him a delightful reception. 

Tampa is fully awake to the necessity of giving the autoist the 
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TAMPA GOOD ROADS. 

The County o f Hillsborough 
was one of the first in the State 
to give this matter its attention, 
and has kept well abreast of the 
times in new and improved road 
construction. 

The county already has more 
than $1,000,000 worth of hard sur- 
faced roads completed, and has ar- 
ranged to spend $875,000 in the 
near future, work on which has al- 
ready been started. 

The 5,000 resident car owners 
have demanded these improve- 
ments, and are clamoring for 
rnore. They are asking for new 
and better roads to the newly re- 
claimed Everglades section, a 
large part of which is already un- 
der construction. A paved high- 
way across the State to Miami 
and the East Coast is already as- 
sured, and many of the smaller 
and less important roadways will 
be paved within another year. 

Tampa in particular, has been 
alive to the necessity of offering 
the travelling motorist a succes- 
sion of beautiful paved roadways, 
and this part of the State in rap- 
idly assuming a reputation in that 
line. 

The Tampa Motor Club has 
been organized, and is affiliated 
with the Florida State Automobile Association and the American 
Autoinobile Association. This club already has 500 members. The 
Club has its office and information bureau in the Tourist Bureau 
of Information in the City Hall, with a secretary in charge, who 
will cheerfully give the visiting tourist any information he may 
desire about Florida roads or routes to take after leaving the State. 

No city the size of Tampa has better streets. Its hundred miles 
of beautiful paved thoroughfares are a marvel to the visiting auto- 
ist, while the Bayshore Boulevard, from Tampa to Port Tampa, is 
one of the- finest driveways in America. The wonderful Sulphur 
Springs is a delightful drive to the north. Lake Butler, known all 
over the State for its beauty and wealth of tropical surroundings, 
is only 20 miles away, on the best of roads, and there are over 
two thousand other fresh water lakes within 60 miles of Tampa. 

Tampa is an ideal section for the autoist. Its good roads, beau- 
tiful scenery and delightful climate bids every car owner a wel- 
come which is hard to resist. 




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"Oh there's a plat of a treasure 

on this dead Pirate's chest — 
Yo, ho, and a bottle of rum." 



SND here is the story — ■ 
Not many know it, and hundreds — -yes, thousands, who 
visited Tampa and have seen this Pirate Krewe invade the 
city, perhaps have wondered what it's all about. 

What is the idea, and why a Pirate craft — rakish and with 
mounted guns — will slip into Hillsborough Bay once each year 
and take the town by storm, disappearing as they arrive, with no 
word of explanation or apology for unruly conduct? 

One who knbws and who is high in the Pirate inner circle 'has 
spoken — softly, yet truly, and now you have the story. 

One hundred men comprise this trusty band of rovers — just one 
hundred tried and true cut-throats, who have proven loyal, and 
who possess nerve and sinews like tempered steel. 

Don Jose Gasparilla will never die. His evil ways and evil 
deeds have brought upon him, like the Flying Dutchman, who can 
never get around the Cape of Good Hope — the curse — that forever 
he will hunt for his ill-gotten gold, the fifteen millions stolen by 
him and his men from two French frigates, after Uncle Sam had 
bought and paid for the provinces known as the Louisiana Pur- 
chase in 1803, and was then in turn stolen from its hiding place 
close to Lemon Bay by three of his trusted men. 

Buried again or delivered to someone near what is now called 
Safety Harbor, it has never been brought to light. 

Gasparilla will ever return each year to deduce, to detect and 
demand what he feels by the rules of the sea, after open combat, 
is his. 

Old Gasparilla, wily old rascal, terrorized the seas hereabouts. 
He killed, robbed and collected his ill-gotten gains, and then built 
himself a mansion on what is 
now Gasparilla Island, where he 
lived with his robber band. Just 
what has become of this rocky 
castle is not known. One leg- 
end has it that the gnuboat's 
crew burned this imposing 
structure, another is that it en- 
dured for many years, a much 
avoided jplace by ghost-fearing 
fishermen and was finally de- 
stroyed by a terrible storm. 
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Island has been the niecca for treasure-seekers where it is said that 
fifteen millions of gold is buried. 

Old Gasparilla, the bold bad pirate, was a terror to the seas. 
The whole eastern gulf shore was infested by robber bands whose 
ambition was to kill and plunder, and many a gallant ship was held 
up by these 'brigands of the deep. On the other side of the Gulf, 
along the Lousiana coast, a a blood-thirsty rascal by the name of 
LaFitte held tyranical sway and no man or band of men dared 
invade his domain. 

His trusty lieutenant, Gasparilla, the bravest and boldest of his 
followers. Tiring of the cruel and tyranical leadership of their 
chief^the blood-thirsty LaFitte, Gasparilla and some of his com- 
panions, seized one of the fleetest vessels and after a desperate 
encounter with the others of the band, sailed eastward and made 
his headquarters on Gasparilla Island which blocked the entrance 
to Charlotte harbor. This was about 1800, and then began such a 
series of blood-thirsty depredations as had ever been conceived 
by the heretofore most cruel pirate band of the Florida coast. 
One by one the savage leaders who had held sway before the 
advent of the willy Gasparilla, were conquered at his hand, and 
the bands were either killed outright or allowed to come under 
his leadership. 

The mad depredations of the band was at last taken up by 
the government and a United States gun boat sent here and a 
desperate battle followed. The pirates were routed and those 
who were not killed outright were hung to the yard arm. Gaspa- 
rilla was said to have been one of the last survivors, but was 
finally overpowered and hung from the mast of his own vessel. 

Fifteen millions in gold. What could that do today in this, 
the era of high cost of living? It would today provide, for all of 
us, luxuries for life, except Gasparilla's favorite rum. 

But the story — so we are told — runs like this: Gasparilla the 
First is gone, but his successors, eleven in all, like the real Pirate 
in spirit, infest the coast of Florida, still looking and stealing and 
frolicking, always after gold, jewels and pretty ladies. 

One by one they leave this earth, but ever their spirit lives, and 
they are here with us each year in costume at this invasion, or 
should they not appear, they are in some more important position 
for the workings of their chief. 

Thus the myth or maybe the reality. Who knows? No more 
can be drawn even from the grizzled old Spaniard now living on 
Gasparilla Isle, near Charlotte Harbor, who digs — digs and digs 
for the gold he loves so well. 

So this is the story upon which Tampa's Gasparilla carnival is 
founded. The anniversary of the big event will be celebrated this 
year during the week beginning February 15. 

Gasparilla and his pirate band will land at the Tampa Bay dock 
on Monday, February 16. 

With war clouds hovering over the country last year the Gas- 
parilla carnival was eliminated. This year it will be resumed with 
more ceremony, with more pomp and splendor than ever before. 
People come from all over the country for this big event of 
Tampa's winter season and the Gasparilla crew of 1920 promises 
one of the biggest celebrations in the history of the carnival. 



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£ ^ at the head of Hillsborough Bay, thirty-six miles from the 
^^^/ Gulf of Mexico. Its great industries, natural advantages 
Climatic conditions, together with its wonderful shipping facilities 
and its proximity to the Panama Canal; all aid in giving it its. 
enviable position in the front ranks of the greatest Southern cities. 
Population — Destined to become the largest and most im- 
portant commercial city in Florida, it already has a population 
of nearly 75,000 inhabitants. These figures are given as the popula- 
tion of Tampa proper, Ybor City, which is under the city govern- 
ment. West Tampa and nearby suburbs. Of this the white Amer- 
ican population is forty-five per cent, foreign white, thirty-five per 
cent, and negro population, twenty per cent. 

EARLY HISTORICAL FACTS 

The whole territory around 
Tampa is rich in historical as- 
sociations, which dates back to 
the very earliest days in the 
history of the country. 

First Florida Discoveries- 
Historians refer to Tampa 
Bay, back as early as 1528, 
which was only thirty-six 
years after Columbus discov- 
ered the new world; and six- 
teen years after Ponce de 
Leon landed on the main land 
and called it Florida. For this 
discovery the King of Spain 
rewarded the gallant explorer 
with the governorship of his 
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1521, when ah expediTtion was fitted out to" colonize the land. On 
this trip the Indians proved hostile and nearly annihilated the little 
Spanish band, who were forced to take to their boats and flee to 
their possessions in Cuba. The governor was wounded and died 
shortly after. 

Nothing is known of Florida for the next five years, the Span- 
ish confining their efforts to explorations in Mexico, which capitol 
fell into the hands of the daring Cortez about the time of the death 
of Ponce de Leon. 

Tampa in 1528 — An associate of Cortez, PampMlo De Narvaey, 
was made the governor of Florida in the year 1536, and to the ap- 
pointment was added the usual privilege of conquest. He was 
given a force of 260 soldiers and forty horsemen, and two years 
later sailed to the new world. Instead of landing on the east 
coast as Ponce de Leon had done, he sailed around into the Gulf 
and entered Tampa Bay. This date is set down as the early part 
of April, 1528. The quest for gold, which every early explorer 
believed to exist in great quantities in the new land, led them to 
press on into the interior. Here they were set upon by hostile 
Indians, lost their way many times and suffered the greatest priva- 
tions. Months afterwards, only four of the small band found their 
way to the banks of the Pacific, and from there south to their fel- 
low countrymen in Mexico. 

DeSoto Came in 1539 — Nothing daunted by the fate of previous 
adventurers, the lure of gold caused another expedition to be 
planned, which was headed by Ferdinand DeSoto, of Xeres, a 
daring and most brilliant young noble, who had lately returned 
from a voyage of exploration and adventure to Peru, on which he 




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Natural History, New York. 

had been the lieutenant of Pizano. They returned rolling in wealth 
and in favor with the Emperor. DeSoto was immediately appointed 
governor of the provinces of Cuba and Florida, and proceeded to 
fit out the most brilliant expedition heretofore attempted for the 
new world. He chose 600 of the most daring and wealthy young 
noblemen of Spain. These cavaliers, with their body servants and 
followers, numbered over 1,000 men. Twelve priests came along to 
administer to their spiritual welfare. Over a year was taken to 
prepare for the voyage of conquest. The entire company was fitted 
out in costly suits of armor, and stores and provisions were taken 
to last for many months. 

Ten gallant ships sailed out of the harbor of San Lucar, with 
this brilliant host, which was the flower of young Spanish gentry, 
one bright morning, while all the Spanish court waived their 
adieus. This expedition touched at Havana, where they received 
a rousing ovation. Here the gallant commander left his young 
wife to govern that island during his absence. Two weeks later 
the entire flotilla entered the waters of Tampa Bay, between 
where the government forts now stand. 

Espiritu Santo (Holy Spirit) — DeSoto, although a warrior, was 
very devout, and raising up his hands to heaven, named the wide 
expanse of water Espiritu Santo (Holy Spirit). Continuing up the 
left branch, now known as Old Tampa Bay, he landed and placed 
the banners of Spain upon a sandy beach near where a little stream 
emptied its waters through a forest of lofty pines and semi-tropical 



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x'trclure. This was early in June of 15:!9, and the place was what 
is ri-ow Safety Harl)or or Green Springs. De Soto and his followers 
cartped here and organised their campaign of exploration to the 
interior. Several 
weeks were spent 
in :.the vicinity, 
and reports were 
sent back with 
their vessels to 
Cuba, of the 
wonderful b u b- 
bling springs 
here and across 
the bay (Sulphur 
Springs) which 
many thou g h t 
might be the 
wonderfully elus- 
ive "Fountain of 
Youth," -w h i c h 
Fonce de Leon 
had sought and 
never found. De- 
Soto and his as- 
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to have explored 
the Hillsborough 
River and camped 




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DeSoto Landing- at Tampa Bay 

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under the mighty oaks in what is now Plant Park, and which are 
still standing and named after the gallant leader. 

The expedition resulted as the former ones had. Hardships, 
privations and disease, together with unceasing hostilities of the 
Indians, reduced their band to a mere handful, which finally got 
back to the Gulf and constructed crude boats and followed the 
coast to a Spanish settlement at Palm River (now Fort Myers). 
During this expedition DeSoto discovered the Mississippi, but later 
met his death, and was buried in the waters of that great river. 

As Yet a Wilderness — Although shell mounds and evidences 
of Indian habitations have been found about Tampa, and early 
residents of this section recount of the many pilgrimages of the 
red men to Sulphur Springs for their health giving waters, it is 
not believed that an actual Indian settlement really existed on the 
site of the present city. 

Coming of the White Men — Little is also known of early set- 
tlements of the white man in this part of Florida. The whole 
territory was under the Spanish flag until it. was ceded to ' the 
United States on February 22, 1819, and two years later a formal 
transfer occurred with ceremonies taking place at 'both St. Augus- 
tine and Pensacola, in July, 1821, which was known as "The' Ex- 
change of Flags." The government immediately began the erection 
of a series of forts. They were crude log block houses, with a stock- 
ade surrounding them, where United States troops were stationed. 

Fort Brooke — -One of these was established on the present site 
of Tampa, and was called Fort Brooke, after its commander, Gen- 




Cruelt.v of BeSoto ami the Spaniard.s in Florida 

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eral George Marshall Brooke. Fort Brooke was one of the most 
important government reservations in Florida. It was from here 
that Major Dade and his party was sent out for Fort King, near 
Ocala, in December, 183.i, and nearly annihilated by the Indians. 
This fearful massacre caused the government to send additional 
troops to this part of the State, and the next year under General 
Wintield Scott, an aggressive warfare was carried on against the 
hostile red men, and General Zachary Taylor, afterwards president 
of the United States, was given charge at Fort Brooke. General 
Worth was placed in charge of the army in 1838, and after an 
aggressive campaign, the hostile Indian chief, Coacoochee, and his 
warriors, were captured and brought to Tampa. This ended the 
Indian war in Florida. 

The military reservation known as Fort Brooke comprised six- 
teen square miles, and at times had a garrison of nearly 3,000 
men. The officers' quarters were situated at the present site of 
Franklin and Krause Streets, and was a rough log structure. This 
was subsequently demolished and a more commodious building 
erected, w'hich is still standing, and now known as "The Carew 
Homestead." After the estal)lishment of the fort, settlers began 
to arrive, and a thriving little Indian trading village was soon 
estalilished. 

Tampa an Indian Name — The whole territory was called 
Tampa, a name in the Indian tongue signifying "Split wood for 
quick lires." Just why this name should be applied is not known, 
but presumably was suggested to the red men by reason of the 
large number of lightwood knots found throughout the surround- 
ing country. 

Tampa Became a Town — In 1847 the government gave the little 
village a townsite of 160 acres, and the name of Fort Brooke was 




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First House Built in Tamiia anil Standing- at Corner of Florida 
, ^ Avenue and Lafayette Street Until a Fev*' Years Ago 

changed to the Indian name of Tampa. The military reservation 
was relinquished by the government, Jan. 4, 1883, and given over to 
the Interior Department, which shortly afterwards opened it to 
homestead entry. 

TAMPA'S WONDERFUL GROWTH 

Tampa's early history was evidently uninteresting and unevent- 
ful. Nothing was heard about it during a humdrum existence of 
;J6 years. An old gazetteer gives its population in 1870 at 796. In 
the ten years up to 1880, it had gone backwards, for in the United 
States census of that year there were but 720 living in t'he village. 

Tampa a Village in the 80's — But Tampa was soon to become a 
real town, and her meteoric growth from a little trading village in 
the early eighties, to the metropolis of South Florida in a little 
over a quarter of a century, reads like an Aladdin tale or a chapter 
from Baron Munchausen. With the coming of "homesteaders" in 
1883, the village of Tampa took a sudden boom, and its estimated 
population at the end of that year was 1,450. Tampa contracted 
the habit of "doubling" its population in these early days — a habit 
she has repeated many times since then. 

When the Railroad Came^The building of the South Florida 
Railroad, in 1884, which has since become the Atlantic Coast Line, 
contributed another decided impetus to Tampa's remarkable early 
development, and the Florida State census of 1885 credited her 
with 2,376 persons. In 1889 the first Seaboard Air Line Railroad 
trains arrived, and in the same year the Tampa Bay Hotel opened 
its doors to the public. This wonderful Moorish palace in hotel 
construction,, built and fitted out by the late Henry B. Plant, at a 



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cost of nearly $:!, 000,000, brought thousands of winter guests of 
wealth and influence from the North and West, who for the first 
time, witnessed the remarkable oportunities for investment here, 
and Tampa took another sudden boom. 

Tampa Now a City — In 1890 the city's population had reached 
o,532. The selection of Tampa ...as a military camp and port of 
embarkation of the United States troops to Cuba in the Spanish- 
American War, gave the city a nation-wide publicity, and helped 
materially in its wonderful developiment. Between 1890 and 1910 
Tampa's growth was the greatest of any city in its class in the 
United States. The percentage of increase was 596. From 1900 
to 1910 only one city in the whole country made a greater gain, 
with its increase of 143.2 per cent. The national census of 1900 
placed Tampa's population at 15,839, or nearly treble what it was 
ten years before, and in 1910 the city had grown to 37,782, or two 
and a half times as large as it was a decade before. Since then 
it has doubled, and is challenging for first honors in population 
of any city in the State, by the time of another government census. 

INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROGRESS 

Tampa, the village of the early seventies, and Tampa the prosper- 
ous, busy city of today, offers the two extremes in the town's history. 

Back in 1884 when the first train came in over the South Flor- 
ida Railroad from Sanford, an epoch started in her future history. 
Up to that time Tampa was a sleepy little trading village, with no 
industries, no commercial enterprises and no thoughts for the fu- 
ture on the part of her inhabitants. A few enterprising individuals 
however, saw a future for the little port and dreamed of the Tampa 
of today. Seeing great possibilities in her harbor facilities and her 
great wealth of natural advantages, they came here and threw their 
destinies in with hers. 

The first enterprising firm to establish in Tampa, and one that 
has since grown to enormous proportions, was Knight & Wall 
Company. This well-known hardware establishment was opened 
for business l:)y H. L. Knight and Perry G. Wall on Jan. 19, 1884 
(Lee's birthday). A modest business on a working capital of 
$10,000 did a $25,000 business the first year. This business has 
grown in a wonderful manner, until it now represents a capital 
of $700,000, and last year transacted a 'business of $911,709. 

When they came to Tampa, there were no railroads, banks, 
or other big business interests. Their modest store building had 
4.200 square feet of floor space. The buildings today boasts of 
nearly 100,000 s.quare feet of space, and is one of the largest busi- 
nesses of its kind in the South. 

The remarkable growth shown by this enterprising firm stands 
SIS a ponument to its progressive business methods, and also dem- 
6'nstrates the city's wonderful growth at the same time. 

In the early days of Tampa, business men were forced to do 
business through banks in far distant cities, and the need of 
financial institutions here was badly felt. 

Shortly after the Knight & Wall Company established them- 
selves, a private banking enterprise came to Tampa and started 
in a modest way. This concern was opened by Ambler, Marven 
& Stockton, which later was made a national institution under 



Real Estate 
ana Lo^ns 

Timber Lands 

Phosphate Properties ' 

Farm Lands, Citrus Groves 

City Property 

Moneij Loaned on Improved 

City andCoiintnj Propertt) 

LOANS PLACED 

For Capitalists Looking lor Gilt Edge Securities 

Ovir reliaLilitij and responsibilitij is finiiKj establislied 

i)V) long tjears of satisfactorij and 

successful operation 

Beckwith & Warren Co. 

First National Bank Btiilding 

TAMPA, FLORIDA 



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Vanity 

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A Bread and Cake 

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TAMPA JACKSONVILLE 






Clover Hill 
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thing Good Butter can be. 

Hermetically sealed at the 
creamery to protect its good- 
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nation in handling. 

A PERFECT FOOD PRODUCT 



CHURNED BY 



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DOMESTIC ONIONS 

On the market Sept. 1 to April 1 of each year. 

Approximately 1 ,000 acres, grown in this section, 

are of quality sufficiently good to be packed under 

our SKY-HIGH Brand. 

Sky-High applies to quality rather than price. 

BRIDGE 6? SOUTER CO., Inc. 

CANASTOTA. N. Y. 



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the 'home of Bank of Tampa, and 
subsequently became the First Na- 
tional Bank, with a capital of 
$50,000. The proof that early bus- 
iness etnerprises prospered i n 
Tampa is the fact that today the 
Frst National Bank boasts o f 
$400,000 capital, with only the ori- 
ginal $50,000 paid in, and the other 
$350,000 credited from its earnings 
and has $600,000 surplus besides. 
Other firms to early establsh 
themselves here was Miller & 
Henderson, Josiah Ferris, E. A. 
Clark and Co., and C. L. Fred- 
erick, a 1 1 general merchandise 
stores, and I. S. Giddens, retail groceries. The latter afterwards 
went into the wholesale business, and later became the Consol- 
idated Grocery Company. 

All oi these concerns started in a small way but very soon 
began to prosper and Tampa's wholesale enterprises grew with 
the town. 

Maas Brothers was the first dry goods store to open in Tampa. 

Here was a concern that also established itself in a modest 
manner and grew up with the city and country. 

Started in a small store room, it has grown into a magnificent 
department store of such proportions that its size or tne magni- 




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tude of its business is not equalled this side. of Jacksonville, and 
its various departments attest to its progressive business spirit. 

Other stores soon followed and Tampa developed into quite a 
village in the early nineties. 

The outbreak of the Spanish-American War, and the establish- 
ment of an army camp here, the arrival of the railroad, and the 




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building of the Tampa Bay Hotel; together with the impetus given 
by the arrival of the cigar industry assured Tampa's ultimate 
success as a city of national importance. 

TAMPA OF TODAY 

The visitor who has not been to Tampa in the last few years 
is amazed at the wonderful changes he sees at every turn. Tampa 
today is a big, bustling, thoroughly modern city, which in wealth, 
commercial enterprise and industrial growth, has a ranking far 
up in the list of leading American cities. 

The Port — Tampa today is justly proud of 'being seventh on the 
list of custom ports of the United States, and is outranked only 
by New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Boston, Chicago and 
San Francisco. As compiled by the City Board of Trade, a total 
of 1,399,424 tons of cargo was handled here in 1916, which was 
valued at nearly $38,000,000, and from which was paid to Uncle 
Sam, customs amounting to $1,887,946. 

The Harbor — Tampa has one of the finest and best protected 
harbors in the world. It reaches from the head of Hillsborough 
Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, and is thirty-six miles long. The 
entire naval forces of the United States would have ample room to 
assemble in its waters. 

In July, 1917, Congress passed the Rivers and Harbors bill, 
which carried an immediate appropriation of $300,000 for deepen- 
ing the channel, from the head of the Estuary to the Gulf, from 
its present depth of twenty-four feet to twenty-seven feet. The 
bill carries with it the assurance of additional funds as the work 
progresses. It is generally believed that this improvement was 
made possible on account of Tampa's nearness to the Panama 
Canal and South American ports, Congress recognizing the im- 
mense amount of tonnage whic'h eventually will be shipped from 
here to these important points. Following are the official figures 
of the canal's proximity to near-by important American ports, 
showing Tampa as the nearest: 

Nautical Nautical 

Port Miles Port Miles 

TAMPA 1.255 Galveston 1,542 

Pensacola 1,393 Jacksonville 1,559 

Mobile 1,492 Savannah 1,606 

New Orleans 1,438 Charleston 1,607 

The Estuary — What six years ago was a marsh 3,000 feet wide 
and nearly a mile long, which at low tide, only showet a narrow, 
sluggish stream of muddy water, is today Tampa's Estuary, af- 
fording five additional miles of harbor docking, and making possi- 
ble the establishment of ship-building interests, which in time is 
likely to be one of the city's greatest industries. Work of dredg- 
ing was started early in the year 1912, and the great improvement 
has only recently been completed. The excavations were used 
to fill in the surrounding meadows and thereby reclaimed many 
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THE CITY'S WEALTH 

A city's assets, its actual resources, showing what it is really- 
worth, is obtained from a 
variety of sources. Tampa's 
financial condition is excel- 
lent as the following chapter 
will show. 

The City's Assets— The as- 
sessed valuation of Tampa 
property last year was $31,- 
879,162, 'based on sixty-six and 
two-thirds per cent of its ac- 
tual value. These are cold 
figures which show a per 
capita wealth of more than 
$500, but only tells part of the 
story. The actual activity of 
the city's business life tells it 
more concisely. 

Bank Deposits — ^The very 
best information from which 
to figure out a city's pros- 
perity, is to turn to the an- 
nual reports of the city banks. 
The actual combined state- 
ment of t'he ten city financial 
institution (two additional 
banks have been opened since 
then) for the year 1917, in com- 
parison with the year before, 
and ten years before, follows: Phosphate Elevator 

Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits 

,1906 1918 1919 

$1,507,054.00 $4,084,838.00 $4,212,363.32 

Bank Deposits 

$5,084,399.00 $14,650,209.84 $18,584,691.36 

Loans and Investments 

$10,688,726.63 $11,391,615.45 

Post Office Receipts — -Tampa's post office shows a really re- 
markable business, which has grown substantially from year to 
year. The year 1919, in spite of war conditions, was the greatest 
in the history of Uncle Sam's office 'here. The total collections 
for the twelve months amounted to $477,368.00, a gain of $159,000 
over the best year the office had ever shown. 

Revenue and Customs — Uncle Sam can further attest to Tampa's 
'business prosperity, who as a $38,000,000 port, contributed to his 
treasury, customs amounting to $1,582,970.35 last year, and for the 
same period paid in internal revenue the tidy sum of $1,984,856.27. 
The last figures breaking the local record for any previous year in 
that department by over $500,000. 

HEALTH 

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cannot be denied. This is due to a number of very important fac- 
tors, which speak for themselves. With ideal climatic conditions, 
a city board of health that is always watching its sanitary condi- 
tions, a fine system of municipal and private hospitals equipped 
with the newest and most modern appliances, its numerous min- 
eral and curative springs, an excellent city water system, an up-to- 
date sanitary department, operating a crematory garbage tank, 
together with a modern Imhofif sewage disposal tank system, with 
over 90 miles of mains, the city enjoys a healthful atmosphere. 

The Death Rate — Tampa has next to the lowest death rate of 
any city in her class in the United States. This is remarkable for 
several reasons. It has a large negro population, where the rate 
is much higher than in the white race, as is also true in the case 
of its large number of foreign residents; added to this is also the 
deaths of many incurable invalids who come here in the hopes of 
being benefited by the climate. In the face of these conditions 
Tampa's rate for 1919 was 20 per cent per thousand, and in 1918 
only 14 per cent. 

Drinking Water — Tamp'a water supply comes from artesian 
wells, and was recently pronounced by State bacteriologists to be 
especially pure and free from all harmful bacteria. 

City Milk Supply — Comes from near-by dairies, all of which are 
regularly inspected by competent city dairy inspectors, and the 
supply is kept up to a high standard of quality. The sale of milk is 
under the supervision of the City Health Department. 
Weather Report of Tampa for 1919, 

Temperature 
Highest Lowest Monthly Wind Veloc. Rainfall 
Degrees Degrees Average Maximum Monthly 

January 80 36 56.2 46 3.00 

-February 85 42 68.4 22 0.08 

March 87 56 71.8 28 0.91 

April 87 46 71.2 30 1.89 

May 91 59 76.4 27 2.15 

June 98 68 81.6 28 1.26 

July 95 70 81.5 30 4.88 

August 97 70 82.5 35 8.11 

September 93 65 79.4 30 5.39 

October 91 63 77.9 25 2.88 

November 83 48 67.2 24 3.07 

December 81 38 62.6 24 2.19 

Highest temperature in 1919, 98 degrees; lowest, 36 degrees. 
Tampa's climate is ideal. It's never too cold or never too warm. 
It never goes to extremes, and possesses a year 'round temperature 
that leaves nothing to be desired at any time. Its geographical 
situation makes soft, exhilarating ocean breezes possible in sum- 
mer, and balmy breezes in winter are wafted from the _ warm 
waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Tampa's glorious sunshine is also 
meted out in copious quantity every day in the year, a foe to every 
germ of menacing disease. Even the slightest semblance of fog 
or dampness is immediately dispelled, and each little breeze is 
kissed into health-giving zephyrs, by its warmth and brightness. 
High winds and wild storms are a thing unknown. Tales of hur- 
ricanes, floods and cloudbursts are as foreign to Tampa as are 
snow storms or blizzards. 

Tampa in Winter — Northern visitors coming away from the 
cold blasts of a land of snow and ice, where slush and sleet threaten 
their health at every turn, find here bright, sunny days, where life 



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in the open air is a delight. They enjoy all kinds of outdoor sports 
and pastimes, sit in the park, fish in the bay or ride about the 
city, days that even the lightest wraps are not required. Open air 
bathing, open trolley cars all winter, luscious oranges and grape- 
fruit ready to be picked from a thousand trees; these are all here 
awaiting the tourist. Tampa is a winter Paradise, marveled at by 
the tourist from a Northern clime. 

Summer Days in Tampa — Possesses a climate, averaging a 
temperature, only a few degrees higher than that in New York 
City, and much cooler than many towns in the Middle West. News 
from the North, of people sweltering from the heat, dropping" 




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312 RINALDI'S OFFICIAL GUIDE BOOK 



down in the streets and suffering from sunstrokes, seem hardly- 
creditable. Even on the hottest days in summer, the absence of 
a high humidity makes one forget the heat. A breeze of some kind 
always blows, and no matter how warm the day, the nights grow 
cool after sunset. There has never been a case of sunstroke or 
heat prostration since the city was founded. The hottest day- 
registered since the government weather bureau began keeping 
records here, was only 98 degrees, and a temperature of 94 
degrees has been recorded only fifty-three times in 27 years. 
Tampa gets the cool breezes from off the waters of Tampa Bay 
and the Gulf of Mexico, and the summer heat is relieved by its so- 
called three months of "rainy season," when cool, delightful 
showers fall nearly every day. 

TAMPA, A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE 

From every angle you care to view it, Tampa is a good place to 
live. Its advantages as a home town are many, and combines the 
enjoyable features of a year 'round resort with those of the up-to- 
date modern city. Its citizens offer you the glad hand, and make 
you welcome as soon as you arrive in the city. 

For the Rich — If you come here rolling in the world's goods, 
with ample means, so that you need not have to think of the fu- 
ture, Tampa offers you a place of residence where you can gratify 
your every wish. You don't have to searc'h for a plot of ground 
on which to build your "castle." There are plenty of beautiful 
locations within a rifle shot of the City Hall, in restricted neigh- 
borhoods, next door to Tampa's best people, where real estate 
values are not at all excessive. Within a few months your grounds 
will be a fairyland of sub-tropical loveliness, and in a year or two 
you will be picking oranges from the trees behind your house. 
Tampa's golf grounds and auto roads offer you diversions. Its 
waterways, good fishing grounds, its clubs and societies, together 
with its healthy amusements, insures you many pleasures. Tampa's 
social life is satisfying and you can spend your days amid sunshine 
and flowers, in a Florida paradise. 

For Those Who Are Not — If you are not endowed with 
a superfluity of this world's goods, a hundred open doors offer you 
employment. Tampa factories and retail establishments pay liberal 
wages. Hundreds of clerical positions offer lucrative employ- 
ment. Tampa houses rent at prices in fair comparison to those 
in other cities of its size. You won't need to buy coal in the win- 
ter, and the abundance of healthful sunshine will save you 
many doctor bills. Open air bathing, near-by beaches, numerous 
water trips, and the many delig'htflu trolley rides afford you a host 
of good times. High-class amusements and the same movies you 
see anywhere and everywhere, are here as well. 

The Cost of Living — Is as low here as in any city in the South. 
You get what you get elsewhere at about the same price, and 
don't forget that you eat home grown strawberries from early in 
January until some time in July, fresh vegetables all the year 
'round, pick oranges all winter long, and enjoy many tropical fruits 
not seen in Northern markets. 

A City Beautiful— Tampa delights the eye at every turn. Its 
broad, well lighted streets, its handsome homes and cosy bunga- 



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lows, appeal to the stranger. Its well conducted stores and good 
markets, with abundance of food products, are attractions worthy 
of notice. Its public buildings and prosperous looking bands, its 
beautiful shade trees, and thousands of motor vehicles, all add to 
the wonder of the tourist. Everywhere one goes, is found an 
evidence of prosperity and thrift. Tampa's suburbs please the eye 
with their well kept lawns, su'b-tropical shrubbery and beautiful 
homes. The Hillsborough River offers many scenic attractions, 
while the wide expanse of rippling waters of the harbor is always 
a thing of beauty. Along its shore is Tampa's Bayshore Boule- 
vard, one of the most beautiful driveways in the South. This, 
and Plant Park, with its wonderful walks and trees, its lawns and 
its shrubbery are the city's most attractive places of interest. 

TAMiPA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

No city in the State has better educational facilities than are 
offered in the Tampa public school, which are under the super- 
vision of the Hillsborough County Board of Public Instruction. 
There are twenty school buildings in the city of Tampa proper, 
fifteen of which are for w'hite pupils. Conservative estimates 
place the value of these twenty buildings, with their equipment, 
at $630,000. Nearly 12,000 pupils are enrolled in the Tampa city 




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314 RINALDI'S OFFICIAL GUIDE BOOK 

schools. As usual the Hillsborough High School has more mem- 
bers in its senior class this year than any other school in the State, 
a record it has held for the past seven years. Three new subjects 
have been added to the curriculum this year: miilitary training, 
home economics and teacher training, and French has been sub- 
stituted for German. A class of over 150 boys devote three hours a 
week to drills, and the study of military tactics and similar classes 
are instructed at each of the Junior High Schools. 

Tampa schools are not surpassed in excellence and efficiency 
bjr those of any city in the country, and a high school diploma 
will entitle its holder to entrance, without examinations, to any 
college admitting high school graduates. 

Free Tuition to Junior Visitors — The city offers free tuition to 
children of visitors within its gates, and tourists coming here for 
the winter months need have no fears, but that their young folks 
will have the same careful educational- training as at home. 

THE CITY CHURCHES 

Tampa is well represented in churches. All leading religious 
denominations have places of worship in the city, which are pre- 
sided over by able pastors, and the high moral tone of the com- 
munity bespeaks well for their spiritual influence. Church social, 
lif€ is particularly active, and more than the usual denominational 
societies for character upbuilding are represented. There are_ 67 
church edifices in the city, many of which are particularly im- 
posing. The denominations represented are Roman Catholics, 
Jewish, Adventist, Baptist, Congregational, Christian, Christian 
Scientist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, Reformed 
Presbyterian and United Brethren. 

THESE HELP TO MAKE TAMPA A REAL CITY 

The visitor is impressed at once with Tampa's civic enterprise, 
her wide, well lighted streets, fine buildings and many social and 
fraternal organizations. 

Streets and Boulevards— In the city of Tampa there are over 
100 mi'^es of paved streets, extending through every section, most 
of them of brick construction. The_ longest street in the city is 
Michigan Avenue, about three miles long. 

Tampa's beautiful asphalt Bayshore Boulevard, flanked on the 
land side by handsome homes, and separated from the waters of 
the bay by a concrete seawall, extends for over a mile, a pic- 
turesque sight lit up at night with clusters of ornamental illuniina- 
tion. This wonderful roadway, as the latest achievement, is_ a 
valued addition to Tampa's other highways. The well paved city 
streets, coupled with 70 miles of brick roads, 50 miles of rock, and 
75 miles of shell roads in the county, give an excellent system of 
highways for the local autoist. 

Good Hotels— Tampa has its full quoto of first-class hostelnes, 
several of them ranking in quality of service with the best in the 
country, and ranging in accommodation up to 600. Visitors to the 
city will find excellent accommodations and at the average price 
charged in other cities of the size of Tampa. Besides the larger 
hotels, th-re are a number of smaller ones, numerous boarding 
houses, and any numlicr of rooming houses and light housekeeping 
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Police Department — This department represents an efficient, 
well organized body of men who have been carefully trained for 
the protection and safety of the property and personal welfare of 
the people of Tampa. The Gamewell signal system is used. The 
department consists of fifty three men, who are officered by a 
chief, police captain, two lieutenants, two sergeants, three detec- 
tives, three motorcycle officers, three traffic and two emergency 
and two patrolmen. The city maintains a rogue's gallery, and a 
Bertillion finger print system. Police records show Tampa free 
from most of the ordinary offenses usually committed within a 
city of its size, and there were less arrests here in 1916 than in any 
time since 1910. 

Fire Department — Tampa fire fighters are a' capable -body of 
well organized men, thoroughly equipped with the most up-to- 
date paraphernalia for fighting fires. All of their equipment ar'e 
motor driven and consists of two triple combination American- 
La France motor pumpers, four combination auto trucks, two 
steam fire engines, four hose wagons, two comibination wagons, 
chief's auto, two assistant chief's autos. 

Six fire stations 
are in the city, with 
additional stations 
in West Tampa as 
follows: Station No. 
1, corner Zack and 
Jefferson Streets 
(fire headquarters); 
Station No. 2, 1313 
Eighth Avenue ; 
Station No. 3, Piatt 
Street, corner Mag- 
nolia Avenue; Sta- 
tion No. 4, 1891 
Ninth Avenue; Sta- 
tion No. 5, 1809 
Florida Avenue ; 
Station No. 6, Pal- 
metto Beach. 

The department 
numberss 55 men, 
with a chief ,and 
two assistant chiefs, 
all under salary. It 
owns 15,000 feet of 
hose. 

The department 
is on a first-class 
rating, which has 
materially reduced 
insurance rates in 
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Tampa a Ci^cir City 

"H^fc-^O EVERY lover of a good cigar, and every good fellow 
# ^ who knows what it means to put aside cares and worries 
^^^/ in the sweet consolation afforded by the enjoyable solace 
of a never-to-be-forgotten clear Havana, Tampa bids him welcome. 
It's dollars to doughnuts that this favorite perfecto is made 
right here in one of the two hundred or more cigar factories in 
the city, and it's millions to a ginger snap that he hasn't the slight- 
est conception of the process of its construction. 

So, Mr. Smoking Tour- 
ist, for its billions to a 
cracker, and not a Florida 
Cracker either, that you 
are a smoker; the first real 
sight seeing you do, by all 
means make a visit to one 
of the big cigar factories in 
\\'est Tampa or Ybor City 
and learn something about 
how cigars are made and 
see a real cigar making 
artisan at work. 

Take a Michigan Avenue 
car at Court Square and 
transfer to a West Tampa 
car at Fortune Street and 
go out to the big factory 
of Cuesta-Rey and Co., in 
West Tampa. This factory 
with its 900 employes make 
the 1,000,000 cigars made in 
Tampa a day. That 1,000- 
000 a day average was 
beaten i n 1917, which 
totaled 353,690,194 for the 
year. Not many, if it were 
clothes pins, or gum drops, 
or safety pins! Things like 

these go into one end of a machine as a plank of wood, or a bar 

of brass, or a barrel of sugar, and come out of the other end 

ready for use. 

But Tampa clear Havana cigars, every one of them last year, 

were made by hand and every cigar was handled by at least eight 

persons. 

A trip to the Cuesta, Rey & Co. factory was suggested because 
somewhere along your route of inspection you are likely to notice 
at least two serious looking Cuban fellows and a dark eyed 
Cuban maid, who, from early 'morn the day through, are deftly 
fashioning huge, unusually dark brown symetrically formed cigars 
of a particular shape and style. It is most likely that the guide will 
casually call your attentoin to these particular cigars and tell you 




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just how difficult it is to obtain 
a barely sufficient amount of 
the nearly perfect variety of 
Pinar del Rio tobacco leaf to 
fill a few 
p a r t i c u lar 
orders. H e 
will not tell 
you that 
these cigars 
would retail 
f o r $1.50 
each. Not 
many get 
into the 
American 
market. A 
few Napol- 
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f i n a n ce, a 

movie star and a Tampa lawyer 
are said to smoke this brand, 
but this big factory has a 
standing European order for all 



Cuesta, Key 




Putting the Cigars in Boxesi 

they are supposed to manufac- 
ture, and this order is by royal 
edict of the Court of Spain. 
Co. have been 
royal cigar 
makers to 
this court for 
5 years. 

The cigar 

industry i n 

Tampa start- 

e d in 1886 

and the 

pioneer was 

S e n o r V. 

M a r t i n e z 

Y b o r, after 

whom Ybor 

City is 

named. 

Three very important reasons 

for the establishment of this 

factory here, were a disastrous 

fire of his, and other big fac- 




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tories in Key West, the coming of the railroad to Tampa and his 
general manager, Edward Manrara. The latter, who made many 
outside trips for the business and deplored the lack of railroad 
accommodations in Key West, made a visit to Tampa and was 
struck with its location. Being but little farther away from Cuba, 
the tobacco market, and having better shipping facilities, both by 
rail and water, he saw in it a better location than Key West. Then 
came the b g fire and Manrara easily persuaded Senor Ybor to 
move his factory here and was afterwards made a partner in the 
concern. 

Sanchez & Haya came about the same time, and really regist- 
ered their factory as No. 1, but to Senor Ybor is given the credit 
of being the pioneer. Others to quickly follow were Lozano 
Pendas & zA^lvarez, Seidenberg, Salvador Rodriguez & Co.. EUin- 
ger and Trujillo. 

The cigar industry became a success from the start and its 
wonderful growth has given Tampa the name of "the Cigar City," 
and helped to make it the seventh port of the United States. From 
a million cigars in 1886 it has grown in 30 years to a million in a 
day, and now more cigars are made in Tampa than in all the 
Island of Cuba. 

The yearly output of Tampa cigars as has been taken from 
the custom receipts record for the past twenty years show the 
vast stride of the cigar industry here. 

1897 90,480,000 1908 336,681,000 

1898 85,144,000 1909 387,059,000 

1899 111,670,000 1910 201,405,000 

1900 147,848,000 1911 293,360,000 

1901 147,330,000 1912 273,485,000 

1903 : 141,905,000 ^^^^ ^^^'^^^T 

1903 320 430 000 ^^^^ 260,800,000 

^^"^ ^^U,43U,UUU ^gjg 285,836,000 

1904 196,961,000 ig-^g 312,456,376 

1905 220,430,000 1917 352,690,194 

1906 277,662,000 19I8 . '. .'.'."... 365',062',928 

1907 285,660,000 1919 418,039,630 

Procuring desira'ble tobacco is the most difficult task of the 

clear Havana cigar manufacturers. All the local factories either 
have a member of the firm or one of its most trusted employes 
in Cuba to attend to this most important part of the work. The 
tobacco is bought in bales, and as there is no uniformity in the 
size of the leaves, and as only the largest and finest are used for 
c'gar wrappers, it takes the greatest experience in selecting and 
pricing the stock. An experienced tobacco buyer saves his firm 
thousands of dollars in the course of a year. 

After the manufacturer buys his tobacco it is imported to this 
country in bond, the boat bringing it here, giving its bond to the 
government to deliver it unopened to the custom authorities, 
where it is appraised and the proper duties levied upon it. It is 
then stored in the bonded ware'-ouse, the government allowing the 
firm to take it out as they use t, paying the duty as it is consumed. 

Many factories have their own bonded warehouses which are 
under government superv sion, where large quantities of tobacco 
is stored, and nothing but imported tobacco is allowed to enter 



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Cigarmakers at Work 



the factory. Government inspectors are at all times in attendance 
and when the employes of the factory go home for the night, 
some one in authority turns the key of the place 'belonging to 
him, and the government employe in charge locks another lock, 
and writhout the two keys not even the owner of the factory would 
be able to enter it until the next morning. 

Don't fail to visit one or more of these factories. Your interest 
will start with the old Cuban leaf stripper at the door and get 



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stronger at every turn. You will see more cigars in one day than 
you and all the cigar smokers you have ever known will consume 
in a life time. You will marvel at the dexterity of nimble fingers 
and at the wonderful eyes of some of the Cuban girls. You will 
hear the factory reader reading to a work room of several hundred 
employes froi.i a newspaper or magazine and the next moment 
hear most of the several hundred Lat.n tongues talking all at 
once in a wild bedlam of noise or burst out in a strange melody 
of song. 

They are a happy lot, these cigar makers, who go to work at 6 
o'clock in the moiu.ng and later on visit their beloved coffee houses 
for breakfast. Regular coffee peddlers make regular visits to the 
factories later in the morning, and during the afternoon. Those 
who go home for lunch drink coffee at home. Many have mem- 
bers of the home guard bring their lunch which includes coffee. 
One marvels at the coffee; coffee everywhere and at almost 
any time. 

The factories allow their employes from three to five cigars 
a day, which the government exempts from revenue tax, and it's 
no unusual thing to see hundreds of workers smoking at their 
work. Some of the older Cuban women are inveterate smokers. 

A trip to a cigar factory will afford a profitable afternoon of 
sightseeing. The experience is very much worth while, and a 
cigar factory is one of the best places in the world to study human 
nature. These cigarmakers are a happy, excitable, good natured 
lot, and are well worth looking at while at their work. 




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And on the way home stop in at one of the coffee shops and 
have some coffee. You probably won't rave over it at first, for it 
won't taste like your coffee at home, but try it anyway. You will 
learn to like it. Like a taste for olives — you have to acquire it. 



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who till the soil; 
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dosen't offer very 
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blasts to produce 
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and Florida hasn't 
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But Mr. Northern- 
er who tills the soil, you will be astonished to hear of the wonder- 
ful opportunities offered you right here to raise other productive 
crops. 

Thaw out for a few minutes and think of Florida's summer 
climate all the year round, affording an opportunity for the grow- 
ing of a successive rotation of four or five crops. Consider well 
the absence of snow and sleet, and the delights of twelve months 
every year of summer warmth and sunshine. 

Why slave over the cares and worries of that big farm up 
North? Why all the hundred and one responsibilities of your 
hundred acres, and all its hard work? Come to Florida with its 
sunshine and its flowers, its productive soil and its wealth of agri- 
cultural resources. 

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than you are making now from your large tract. Start right. 
Don't believe all the wild tales you hear from everyone you meet. 
You cannot plow up money from Florida soil. It isn't there in 
the coin of the realm. It's in a different type. But it's there just 
the same, if you half try to take it out. 

So start right. Don't be one of the dozens of Florida failures, 
who came here with a couple of hundred dollars and no knowl- 
edge of how to work the land. That kind fail anywhere. 

Start with several times that amount. Buy good land. It's 
always to be had at a reasonable price, and it always pays. It also 
pays to Iniy of a responsible real estate man; one whose respon- 
sib-lity you have looked up. Not that many of the other kind are 
doing business in Florida, but some such fellow might get in and 
get you. 

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Right now^ the quality of the fertilizers you apply to your 
grove or farm is more important than ever. Insist on the Gulf 
Brand trade mark when ordering. It stands for everything 
that's best in fertilizers — be^ materials, be^ formulas, be^ 
methods of manufacture, be^ produd; — and last, but not lea^, 
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Cattle Breeding- is a Success in Some Localities. 

plan for the future. Get busy with your young groves of orange 
and grapefruit trees. Here will be a big revenue later on. 

Get busy with small truck at once. Lettuce, celery, beans, 
eggplant, cucumbers, cabbage and strawberries are all productive 
crops. Strawberries in December sounds pretty good, dosen't it? 
And the crop lasts until June. 

Farmers are raising Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, sugar cane 
and corn, and making money. You can do it too. 

This territory has an average of 330 crop growing days every 
year. That beats your Northern plan of waiting half the year for 
warm days for your crop to start. 

Think of the wonderful opportunities in poultry raising. Do 
you recall how many cold days up North when the hens refused to 
lay? Well there are no real cold days here, and eggs bring as 
much in Tampa as they do in your home town. 

Stock raising is a part of the Florida agriculturalist's "propa- 
ganda" that brings in real money. For years the Northern farmer 
has "poked fun" at the Florida "Razor-backs," but all Florida 
hogs are not "razor-backs" by any manner of means, and Florida 
pork at war prices beats raising a good many Northern crops. 

So come and find out all about it, or write about it. You can 
find out a lot for the price of a postal card. Better come and see 
for yourself and be convinced. A few weeks of Florida summer 



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List of Goods We Carry in Stock in Tampa 



Anti-Cow Kickers 

Aprons, Dairy 

Bottles, complete line 

Baskets, bottle 

Brushes 

Brooms 

Boilers, Orr & Sembower 

Bells, cow 

Barn Equipment, Louden 

Caps, all kinds 

Clippers 

Cans, milk 

Can jackets 

Cattle Dip, Cooper's 

Churns 

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Coolers, buttermilk 

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weather in winter time, and a look at real Florida crop raising, 
and many a Northern crop raiser alters his name on the register 
to read: "Mr. Northerner, Florida, U. S. A." 

Don't come to Florida and expect success if you are a rank 
failure everywhere else. It takes a fellow with energy, grit and a 
well developed backbone to succeed anywhere. But that kind of 
a fellow is sure to succeed here. The climate is here, the good 
soil is here, and opportunities are here. If you are the man with 
the right kind of "go-at-itiveness" and "stick-to-itiveness," come 
and be one of the real Florida successes. Florida is ready to 
welcome you, and offers you real opportunities to insure your 
success. 

There are so many different things to do, agriculturally, in 
Florida, so many different angles of the "great game of farming" 
offered for your approval, that you can easily do the thing that 
you are most suited for. 

You can raise truck, grow oranges or grapefruit, persue gener- 
al farming, raise cattle or poultry or do a little of each of them 
as your fancy suggests. 

No place in the world are there more different things to do 
than can be done here. If you are interested in agriculture, study 
Florida agricultural conditions and you will be surprised to find 
out what big htings can be done here. 

It's worth a trip to Florida to learn all about these things and 
if you are here^^byall means look' over one or more of the agricul- 
tural sections decribed in this Guide you will be surprised to find 
how many of these Florida farmers were northern farmers a few 
years ago and you will be surprised at the things they will tell- 
you about the success they have made in Florida. 




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Needed Rural Wellare Uplift in Florida. 

By Lindley Heimburger. 
Ed. ted and Approved by Edgar A. Wr ght, Editor Florida Grower. 

OF ALL elements of human happiness, the home relation- 
ships are the most important. In fact, the proper balance 
of civilization the world over is dependent upon a suita- 
ble home environment for its members. The most important es- 
sentials of a perfect home environment are health, soc.al, moral, 
educational and recreational advantages, as well as fair compensa- 
tion for ones toil, which may be stated exactly, in the farmer's 
case, his living expenses, plus ten per cent. This ten per cent 
divided — live per cent as interest on the mvested capital, and five 
per cent profit. One of our leading American agricultural jour- 
nals has niade this a slogan for many years past, and it has today 
become a byword in most American rural communities. 

Amiong the essentials of a happy rural home life, health is 
probably of the greatest importance. It may be stated without 
fear of contradiction that Florida is especially favored in these 
advantages, as we have, without doubt, the most equable and un- 
iform all-the-year-round climate of any similar area on the Ameri- 
can continent, without a probable equal anywhere else in the 
world. The State of Florida maintains an efficient health depart- 
ment with adquate police power to enforce its regulations. This 
is of great importance in protecting the health of Florida resi- 
dents, as Florida has the greatest seacoast, amounting to some 
1,200 miles, of any state in the Union, and it is necessary 'to 




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Natal Hay Association Farm at Brooksvilli', 



guard this extensive border against outside disease infestation. 
The -excellent record of our State Health Department 'during the 
past twenty years shows how well this work has been handled — • 
especially in keeping yellow fever out of the State. Much 'work 
in recent years has been done by our State Health Department 
in the eradication and control of the hookworm disease, tubercu- 
losis and malaria. 

Next to climate, sanitary home surroundings are necessary to 
good rural health. Flere again the State Health Department is in 
a position to render very valuable assistance through personal ad- 
vice of its local state health officers, and the many excellent pub- ' 
lications issued by this department. These publications cover the 
proper planning and construction of rural sewerage disposal sys- 
tems, sanitary closets, and rural water supplies. The United 
States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, through 
the Bureau of Publications, furnishes many voluable bulletins on 
these same subjects, which are available at all times at no charge 
to the applicant. 

The water supply of the average Florida rural area is almost 
invariably abundant. As a rule, our Florida waters are extreme- 
ly potable and wholesome,' being probably better on an average 
than any other state in the Union. Even the water from shallow 
wells in Florida can be safely used for household purposes, if 
all sources of outside pollution are eliminated, although it is al- 
ways advisable that water used for potable purposes be obtained 
from deep wells, and that these wells should be completely closed 
and covered with a concrete protecting slab. 



DELCO-UGHT 

''Slec^j-Joity for 

Mr. Farmer: When you install Delco-Lig'ht 
you g"et bright, clean, safe electric lights in every 
room of your house — in every part of your barn 
and outbuildings. You get electric power at the 
house to pump water, to run the washer, wringer, 
cream separater and churn. You get electric pow- 
er at the barn — ^to turn the corn-sheller, the grind- 
stone and the fanning mill — all of this, brig^li/t, 
safe electric lights and dependable electric power, 
at the touc'h of a convenient button. Think what 
this will mean to you, to your family and to your 
home. 

Delco-Light is the electric light and power 
plant for you to install — it is dependable, durable 
and efificient, is specified by the United States Gov- 
ernment, and is recommended and endorsed iby 
more than 75,000 satisfied users throughout the 
world. This is your guarantee of its satisfactory 
operation. 



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Breaking New Ground. 

In the maintenance of good rural health, the quality and var- 
iety of human food should be given most careful attention. Due 
to our very long growing season — averaging nine months — and 
an annual rainfall of from 54 to 60 inches, and with a warm and 
easily tillable soil, it is always possible for the rural family to 
have an abundance of dairy, poultry and pork products, garden 
vegetables, and fresh fruits through the entire year, at insignifi- 
cant personal cost. Why the average Florida resident farmer 
does not avail himself of these advantages of prime and essential 
importance to the health and happiness of his family, we cannot 
understand. It is a fact that there are hundreds or thousands of 
native stock roaming at large on the wild ranges who are absolu- 
tely dependent on the "tin cow" for their entire supply of milk, 
though it is true that they would probably have to milk from six 
to ten of their wire-grass fed cows to get sufficient supply of milk 
to furnish their table. We certainly would not advise this prac- 




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Repeat orders and satisfied customers who 
have used our fertilizer year after year, who 
always gladly recommend our goods to their 
neighbors, are our best advertisement. 

Our prices are not aWays the lowest, but 
when QUALITY is considered, never too 
high. Write for latest price lists, or send 
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Floi-itla Sugar Cane. 

tice, as all the improved breeds of da'ry cattle thri^'e everywhere 
in the State. Though in many tick-free areas it is generally nec- 
essary to use tick-immune stock, as a large portion of our state 
still remains in the tick quarant ned areas of the south, we expect 
to completely clean the state of cattle tick infestation within three 
years at the outside. All standardized- breeds of poultry do re- 
miarkably well in Florida, and there is no reason why the average 
rural family should not have an abundance of eggs, and table 
poultry at all seasons of the year. The kitchen garden is of equal 



THE GROWER'S 
PAYING INVESTMENT 

Good fertilizer j rightly used, will do more than 
any other single factor to increase the grower's 
profit. The big, profitable crop is almost invar- 
iably the well fertilized crop. Armour fertili- 
zers — f ormulsis developed during nearly thirty 
years' experijehce^ study aijid observatioii in Flor- 
ida — are especially designed to grow biggest pos- 
sible crops under average Florida conditions. 
They are made from the finest materials the 
world produces and are balanced so as to furnish 
the proper plant foqd at the right timel and fin 
the right amount. 



'Our 

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Include formulas to suit all 
crops, all soils, and the indivi- 
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And best of all, each is a well 
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Jacksonville, Florida 




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A Big Brother to SmaU Farmers 

If you cultivate ten or more acres, the AVERY 5-10 SPECIAL 

FLORIDA TRACTOR will make light work of your heaviest 

jobs, and help in making your farming more profitable. 

— does the work of four horses, and does it better. 

— works through sand and heat without tiring. 

— plow^s, harrow^s and discs. 

—turn 'round in a 22 -foot circle. 

— runs on ordinary kerosene. 

— simple, economical- -a practical time and money- 
saver for small truckers, farmers and fruit 
growers. 

This AVERY 5-10 TRACTOR is one of six sizes, specially 

adapted to meet Florida conditions. Detailed descriptions, prices 

and full information promptly mailed upon request. 

Skinner Machinery Company 

L. B. SKINNER, Manaeer 
Monroe Avenue Dunedin, Florida 

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importance with the family cow and flock of poultry. These three 
work together in perfect unison, as their various by-products are 
in every case used by one another. For instance, the manurial 
by-products furnished by the family cow and flock of poultry may 
be readily converted into the fertilizers required for the garden 
and home orchard, when properly reinforced with acid phosphate 
and potash salts. It is possible to have a fine garden available 
for kitchen uses every day in the year in practically every part of 
Florida., -This is especially the case when the humus content of 
the soil, used for gardening purposes, is always maintained, which 
can be readily done if the farm family keeps from one to three 
good cows and sufficient work stock to furnish power for the 
proper preparation and cultivation of the land and returns to the 
soil the manure from them. 

The United States Department of Agriculture, during recent 
years, has made a careful survey and study of the advantages of 
the home kitchen garden to the rural family, and the deductions 
reached by this department show that the land devoted to garden- 
ing purposes on the farm invariably produces a much larger finan- 
cial yield as compared with other similar areas in cultivation on 
the farm, allowing market prices for the product grown and con- 
sumed. We believe that under average Florida conditions, the 
rural kitchen garden of one-half acre, with intensive cultivation, 
inteMigent management, suitable rotations, provisions for full 
maintenance and increase of humas, together with a slightly alka- 
line condition of the soil, will yield a net annual revenue of at least 
$500, or at the rate of $1,000 per acre. This is only a financial es- 
timate of the value of the garden, whereas it would be impossible 



I Mr. Tourist: I 



As you travel through our beautiful State, does mS 
it occur to you that it has resources to offer that can- nn 
not be equalled in any other section on earth: Lands 
comparatively cheap, markets easily accessible, and a 6S 
growing climate three hundred and sixty-five days in 
the year. 



Our crops are widely diversified and seasons con- 
tinuous: No weary waiting between periods of pro- 
duction, no long "feeding-out" interval, but an almost 
unbroken harvest from January to January. 



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No wild experiments are necessary — a sane sys- 
tem of profitable management awaits you, covering 
SS fruits, vegetables, nuts, sugar cane, forage, and live 

K^ stock. Other people have made financial success; , 

|S^ you can do the same, and by expanding, add to the |K 

^^ country's development. Great opportunities are here. ^{ 

^S We have no land to sell, no particular proposition ^S 

^^a to promote, but after your choice is made, we become ^fi^ 

«j a most interested partner, for fertilizer must be used, KN 

S^ and it is the fertilizer manufacturer who can help you JS^ 

SS to gain best results that will get your trade. Knowing K^ 

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«| from soil problems on to gathering the crop. We have 11| 

a set of free books that would interest you. Let us mM 

send them to you as an introduction to our work. ^^ 

Your specific needs will be given personal attention. «« 

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A Pasco County Rye Field. 

to compute the true health and happiness-giving value of this im- 
portant source of rural contenment. The home orchard should 
receive the same care as the garden. 

The rural home in Florida should be designed and constructed 
on very different lines from the average northern home. In the 
designing of a residence, all architects agree that utility is of first 
importance, and a prime essential in architectural art. We are 
sorry indeed that many of our country homes are not designed to 
comply with our climatic conditions. The reader will understand 
that Florida has an average frostless season of nine months, with 
very short spells of cool and cold weather, during the remaining 
three months of the year. Therefore it is plausible to lay down 
the principle that the average Florida home should be so designed 
and constructed as to furnish as perfect a ventilation sceme as is 
. possible in architectural construction. In every case, it is advisa- 
ble to dispense with the standard sash window, and substitute 
French windows that open outward. Screens should be placed 
inside the windows — ^^bronze being preferable — and the adjusting 
or controlling rods can work through holes in the screen. In this 
way it is possible to get twice as much ventilation from each win- 
dow construction. In Florida home planning the living room 
should be large, and this should communicate with the dining 



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FOR COUNTRY HOMES 

Consists of a cypress tank 
to hold the water, elevated 
to'^a steel tower. The 
pressure is regulated by 
height. Gravity replaces 
co^ly and troublesome ma- 
chinery, hence the name 

DAVIS 

GRAVITY 

SYSTEM 

By using our system every 
out-of-town resident can now 
have running water in his home 
and outbuildings with irrigation 
water for his grove, garden or vegetable patch, and at the same 
time have adequate fire protection. Our tanks are made of 
cypress, the be^ acknowledged wood for this purpose. 




Davis tanks can be kept filled by windmills, gasoline or kerosene 
engines, electric motor, hand pump or hot air engines, steam pump or hy- 
draulic ram. 

Write tor Information, Stating Exactly What You Want 

G. M. Davis & Son 

PALATKA FLORIDA 



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room through a large open archway, and with the porch, which 
should be at least twelve feet wide and screened, through French 
windows, extending clear down to the floor, which could be used 
also as doorways when necessary. Instead of French windows, 
it might be advisable — though the writer has never seen it done — • 
to use folding glass doors made in several sections, constructed 
so as to fold into a recess in the wall, or the glass partition 
between the living room and the screened porch could be con- 
structed so as to drop into a pit through the floor, in which case it 
would be necessary to use pulleys and counterweights to facilitate 
the easy movement of these large windows. By this manner of 
living room construction one would have the advantage of having 
a room outdoors and half indoors, through a period of some nine 
months in the year, and in addition have protection against the 
few cold winter periods. This manner of living room construction 
would be especially practical throughout Florida. Every rural 
home in Florida should be supplied with sleeping porches, as 
these can be used with comfort practically all the year round. 

Running water is probably of greater economic importance to 
the rural housewife than any other single thing that could be put 
into her home. With the mechanical equipment now available to 
meet all the requirements of rural water plants, there is no reason 
why the vast majority of homes should not be furnished with run- 
ning water. To this should also be added an electric lighting out- 
fit, using tlie storage battery system. The same internal combus- 
tion engine used to run the pump also can be used economically 
for -the purpose of an electric generator. With electricity avail- 
able at all times about the house, it is possible for the housewife 
to have a large number of labor saving electrical appliances, such 




Cattle on Natural Pasturage Near Sarasota. 



Farm Lands 



in the 



Heart of Florida 



Alachna and Levy Counties comprise the 
leading general farming and stock raising sec- 
tions in Florida. We have ready-made 

STOCK FARMS, RANCHES 
and Improved Farm Lands 

Tracts that we can personally recommend 
and that are recommended by the State and 
Government authorities. 

The State Agricultural Experiment Station 
is here in Gainsville. Information as to the 
right manner of cultivating your crops can be 
secured first hand. 

Live near Gainsville and be near the best 
authorities on agricultural subjects. 



Colson Land Company 

Opposite A. C. L. Ticket Office 

GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA 



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as an electric washing machine, a vacuum cleaner, and an electric 
iron — all great labor savers in the home. As it would be impossi- 
ble to install suitable sanitary advantages in the rural home with- 
out a good available running water supply, you can readily under- 
stand the importance of having a water works system on the 
farm. All barns and outhouses should be equipped with running 
water and electric lights. 

To insure suitable social, moral, educational and recreational 
advantages for the rural famiyl, good roads are of greater impor- 
tance than any other feature, as today the automobile and motor 
truck have become an absolute and prime essential to the farm. 
The rural family favored with a good permanent country road 
system and an automobile has all the advantages that the city man 
ident as well as a large number of advantages that the city man 
can never expect to have. To this of course should be added the 
rural telephone, which can be had practically everywhere in Flor- 
ida. 

Good roads invarably result in centralized rural schools, and 
many of our most progressive and agressive Florida counties are 
today taking advantage of the wise centralized school laws passed 
by the state years ago. In these counties the small district school 
has entirely disappeared. The funds formerly required to main- 
tain these small inefficient schools are today devoted to the main- 
tenance of excellent, well-equipped and properly organized cen- 
tralized schools; the rural school children being given free trans- 
portation by the county to and from their homes. With good 
roads the rural resident can have the same moral advantages of 




Good Roads — A Real Asset to the Florida Farmer 



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Marion County Muck Lands 

ARE RECOGNIZED AS THE BEST IN FLORIDA 

If you are interested in GENERAL FARMING or 
in a trucking proposition, let me introduce you to some of the 
best propositions in this part of the State. 

Here is an especially good one: 

FOR SALE 
1,500 ACRES — 400 acres muck 8 feet deep, rich as cow ma- 
nure, balance gently rolling sandy loam for fruit and gen- 
eral farming; underlaid with clay; 1,000 acres adjacent 
similar land in 1916 produced 100 bushels of corn to acre, 
and 125 acres in rice produced 60 bushels to the acre. 1917, 
500 acres of potatoes sold for over $200,000.00, and was then 
in May and June planted in corn, producing 50 to 60 bush- 
els to acre, this being second crop that year. No fertilizer 
used in making above described crops. Price $15 per acre. 
If interested, write for particulars. 

ROBERT L. MARTIN 

Room 1 4, Merchants Block Ocala, Florida 



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Florida Farms 

AND CITRUS GROVES 



We are specializing in these properties. Endeav- 
oring only to handle bargains in all sections of the 
State. 

Have Groves in All Ages 

If you are interested in any particular section we 
we will endeavor to secure just what you want, wherever 
you want it. 



C. C. ROBERTSON & CO. 

Real Estate in All Its Branches 

49 Barnett Building Jacksonville, Florida 







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Citrus Groves, Improvea ana Un- 
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Do Y|OLi Want to Come to Florida? 

We can easilv) effect an exclian^e of tjovir liola^ 
in^s for wliatever vjovi want liere. 

Write Us, Telling wliat Yovi Have 

and if possible send pliotograplis. You will Le surprised 
liow easilv) we can suppltj v)Our needs in excliange for 

Your Propertv) wlierever it mavj be 

We want to empliasize tlie fact tliat our concern is re- 

liatle. For reference w^rite Citizens Bank CT" Trust Co., 

Tampa, or anijoue of tlie liundreds of our satisfied 

clients all over tlie United States. 

raders Realtij Co. 

DR. E. A. MALLETTE, Manager 

NATIONAL CITY BANK BUILDING 
304 Zack Street Tampa, Florida 



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Whether you are feeding horses and mules, cows, hogs 
or poultr}-, you will get absolutely the best results you 
have ever known by feeding 

Happy Stock Feeds 

Made by 

EDGAR-MORGAN CO. 

MEMPHIS, T£NN. 

Old Beck Sweet Feed is the best feed in the world for 
work animals of all kinds. It is made of good corn and 
oats, alfalfa and pure cane molasses. Beautiful green 
color, highly digestible — no waste. 

Happy Cow Feed is made of cottonseed meal, corn meal, 
wheat bran, alfalfa meal, cocoanut meal, velvet bean 
feed, unhulled peanut oil feed, rice bran polish and one- 
half of one per cent salt. 

Happy Hog Feed is made of corn feed meal, velvet bean 
feed, unhulled peanut oil feed, cocoanut meal, wheat 
shorts, rice bran, alfalfa leaves, tankage, one per cent 
charcoal and one per cent calcium phosphate. 

Happy Hen Mash is made of sound, clean grain, sunflow- 
er seeds and other materials which keep the laying hens 
in the best condition and make them lay more eggs. 

Happy Stock Feeds are scientifically balanced, properly 
ground and mixed and they have made good on our own 
herds and flocks. They will make good for you. 

Look for these brands on the bag. If your dealer won't 
supply you with Happy Stock Feeds, write to us for 
samples, prices and name of nearest dealer. 

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church going, as the city dweller, and this may also be said to 
apply to recreational advantages furnished by the county, such as 
hunting and fishing that the city cannot supply. A large number 
of counties in Florida are already provided with well planned 
systems of hard roads and before many years pass good roads will 
be found everywhere. 

Before we can expect our rural conditions to be ideal on our 
Florida farms, we must insure our farmer resident a good living 
and ten percent. The farmer must not only be a good producer, 
but he must also have marketing and executive ability. In the 
efficient production of crops, it is of prime importance that he not 
only know how to properly till the soil, the principles of efficient 
rotation, and the importance of including a live stock unit in all 
and every development scheme he undertakes, but he must know 
the advantages of availing himself of every opportunity to save 
human labor, as it may be said that fully ninety cents out of every 
dollar spent for necessities of life represents labor, with ten cents 
for all other expenses charged against the product. The farmer 
today has available at relatively small cost a vast number of labor 
saving farm appliances and equipment. Probably of the greatest 
importance is the quality and quantity of farm power. As a rule 
our southern farms are not operating with sufficient power — ■ 
whether it be horses, mules or tractors. It may be safely stated 
that it is better to have too much power than too little available 
for fram operations. The farm tractor is rapidly becoming 
"fool Proof," and we expect that in a very few years our farmers 
will have available tractors that are in every way of great econo- 
mic value in the preparation and even cultivation of the land. 

The up-to-date Florida farmer must realize the importance of 
seed selection, and the advantages of pure breed and time tested 
pedigreed stock, and the importance of bud selection, if he follows 
horticulture as his main pursuit. There has been entirely too 
much waste on the average Florida farm in the past. We have 
not made proper provision for the utilization of the many by- 
products produced on the farm. Before we can expect the great- 
est profits our farmers must take advantage of the efficient man- 
agement of their farms. 

Of equal importance to the efficient production of farm and 
grove crops is the economic marketing of those products so as to 
realize a reasonable and just profit on the labor and capital in- 
volved in producing these commodities. In the first place, our 
farmers must get away from the idea that they are independent, 
as this has been proved to be absolutely false in defining the 
very essence of civilization, as true independence exists only in 
the naked savage, a civilization advances, cooperation and coordi- 
nation of human associations progress as man rises from bar- 
barism to the highest degree of civilization. Before our Florida 
farmer can expect to reap the greatest advantages from their toil, 
it will be necessary for them to cooperate with one another to the 
very fullest degree and the further this cooperation is carried, the 
larger the profits they may expect — in fact, it may be said that 
the secret of successful farming today is cooperative marketing of 
all the farm products produced. 



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Bee Keeping Possibilities in Florida 



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By Wilmon Newell, 

'EW STATES possess as favorable conditions for beekeep- 
ing and honey production, generally speaking, as does Flor- 
ida. The remarkable yields of honey from tupelo, man- 
grove, orange and palmetto, obtainable in some parts of the State, 
have been well known to the beekeeping fraternity for many years 
and not infrequently northern beekeepers have shipped their apia- 
ries to Florida for the spring honey flow and then shipped them 
north again in time to store honey fro'm the white clover crop 
in June. 

Such ventures were, for the most part, unprofitable, due largely 
to loss of bees in transit, coupled with the occasional bad season 
at either the northern or southern end of the game. In more re- 
cent years such attempts have been largely abandoned, one rea- 
son being the steadily advancing freight rates and it may indeed 
be said without fear of contradiction that the freight rates of the 
present would make such undertakings out of the question. 

While the tupelo, mangrove, palmetto and orange have been 
mentioned above as important sources of honey in Florida, the 
reader should not draw the conclusion that all these honey plants 
are to be found throughout the State or even that all of them 
are to be found in any one one locality. The tupelo, which yields 
heavily of a clear delicious non-granulating honey, is essentially 
a tree of western Florida, a section where citrus trees are not 
grown to any considerable extent. Conditions favorable to the 




Bee Hives. 



THE 

Mapes Manures 

THE STANDARD FOR GENERATIONS 

The Same Choice Materials and Special Methods of 
Manufacture which have made them Household Words 
in Florida for Forty Years. 



THE MAPES FRUIT SPECIAL 

THE MAPES ORANGE TREE 
MANURE 

THE MAPES ORANGE TREE 
(War Potash) 

THE MAPES VEGETABLE 
MANURE (SpeciaD 

These are brands we have been offering for sev- 
eral years. 

THE MAPES 5 PER CENT. FRUIT 

(Atnonia 2 to 3%, total phosphoric acid 7 to 9%, available 
phosphoric acid 5 to 7^, potash 5 to 6fo) 

This is a new brand where more potash is desired for in- 
creasing fruiting powers and improving quality of fruit. It can 
be economically used under present price conditions for potash. 

SEND FOR PRICE LIST 

The Mapes Formula and Peruvian 
Guano Company 



Jacksonville Branch 



Hamilton Woodruff, Manager 



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tupelp, are usually favorable to the ty-ty, a small shru'b which also 
yields ap excellent honey. 

The rnangrove grows only along the salt water and little of 
it is found north of Merritts Island on the East Coast' of north 
of Clearwater on the West Coast. Though an excellent yielder 
of honey, it is limited to small areas. 

Cabbage and saw palmetto are often found in quantity in the 
same localities with mangrove and the palmettos jalso occur 
through the interior of the peninsula, at times in close proximity 
to orange and grapefruit groves. 

Through the "flat woods" sections of the peninsula and north- 
ern Florida the gallberry is the principal honey-prcducing plant 
and fair yields are secured from it with good management. 

One should not gather the impression that beekeeping in Flori- 
da offers a way to get ridh quickly. Beekeeping upon an exten- 
sive scale is a highly specialized industry and is a success only 
for those who have had years of experience at it. It is also ex- 
ceedingly difficult, if not impossible, for the inexperienced person 
to 'Select apiary locations that will give satisfactory results. An 
intimate knowledge of the honey-producing flora is necessary for 
while one neighborhood may have sufficient honey-yielding plants 
to make profitable the operation of a large apiary, another locali- 
ty only a few miles distant may not afford enough honey for even 
a few colonies of bees to live on. 

Those sections of the State in which large yields of honey are 
obtainable with more or less regularity have long since been dis- 
covered by enterprising beekeepers and for the most part have 
been fully occupied. This is particularly true of the tupelo sec- 
tion along the Apalachicola River in western Florida. There is 
always a limit to the number of colonies of bees which can be 
profitably kept in any area. There is just so much nectar to be 
gathered. So long as the num'ber of bees is insufficient to gather 
all of it, profitable yields are secured but when the number of 
bees exceeds this the yield per colony becomes less. With the 
range heavily overstocked with apiaries the amount of surplus 
honey produced may even be reduced to nothing. Even in the 
most productive sections it is not found profitable to place the 
apiaries, of from 50 to 150 colonies, nearer than three miles of 
each other. 

It is as an adjunct to the usual farm operations that beekeep- 
ing is of most importance. Bees, like chickens, should be kept 
on nearly every farm and if the proper equipment is secured and 
the bees intelligently managed the income from them will be 
found to represent, as a rule, about 100 per cent, per annum on 
the investment. The number of colonies, to secure such results, 
should not be large — anywhere from 3 to 20 — they should be 
kept in modern frame hives, should be of good Italian stock and 
the owner should know enough of the bee's biology and habits 
to meet their most essential requirements. Like poultry raising, 
beekeeping returns the biggest profit on the investment when the 
operations are small. This is true because spare time can be 
utilized in caring for the bees and because, with only a few colo- 
nies, the amount of nectar available for them is usually sufficient 
to insure good yields per colony. 



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We are not offering orange groves, winter 
homes, delightful climate or playgrounds, but 
are selling farm lands that are equal to any 
in the world; the grove and home are but ad- 
juncts to be had if desired, the climate is here 
and is free to all. 

1,500-Acre Farm, hammock and rolling pine and hickory 
land, 1,000 acres in cultivation, 500 being- old ground free 
from stumps and 500 acres in cultivation one to three 
years; balance timbered and cut-over lands used for 
pasture with living water. All cultivated lands are now 
in crop, 18 miles fencing, all hog-proof wire except 3 
miles barbed. Railroad station two hundred yards from 
corner of farm and fifteen car switch on farm, two mod- 
ern houses, one ten rooms, other six rooms, built within 
five years, cost $5,000 and $4,000; two 'barns and plenty 
outbuildings, garages, etc.; ten tenant houses scattered 
over place, water supplied from driven wells; both houses 
lighted from acetylene gas plant, phone in each, rural 
route, large yards with 40 orange, 15 grapefruit, 50 peach 
from early to late, bananas, plums, persimmons, grapes, 
five-acre citrus fruit grove set out this spring. Within 
three miles good railroad town, school, churches and 
stores, 19 miles from Ocala with hard road all the way. 
In Illinois this farm would be snapped up at $300 an 
acre; we are offering for $90,000, with very reasonable 
terms. 

(See our "Best Farm Bargain" for smaller offering) 



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Ocala, Marion County, Florida 



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Bees are kept in towns and even cities with good success. 
Only sufficient space is necessary for the location of the hives, 
at most a few square yards such as may be found in the average 
backyard. In crowded communities, however, the keeping of a 
gentle strain of bees is of the utmost importance, in order that 
neighbors and passersby will not be annoyed by getting stung. 
The proper handling of the bees also has a great deal to do with 
their disposition. 

The Agricultural Extension Division of the Universlity of 
Florida, located at Gainesville, encourages the keeping of bees on 
the farms of Florida and will supply information to the amateur 
concerning their care and management. The County Agents in 
many counties have also organized Boys and Girls Beekeeping 
Clubs which have proven very successful. 

The 1919 session of the Florida Legislature enacted a statute 
providing for the prevention and eradication of bee diseases in 
Florida, for bees, like animals, are subject to certain con- 
tageous and infectious diseases. Fortunately the more destructive 
of these diseases 'have not become widely established in Florida 
and it is the intention of the State to see that they are not intro- 
duced. The law prohibits the shipment of bees into Florida 
when in hives or on combs unless the shipment is accompanied 
by an official certificate of freedom from disease, issued by the 
State Apiary Inspector of the State from which shipped. The 
enforcement of this law is in the hands oi the State Plant Board 
(Gainesville, Florida) and in sections where disease has become 
established the Board is at work eradicating it. Those contem- 
plating the shipment of bees into Florida should communicate 
with the Plant Board at Gainesville and secure full informatiom 
as to the restrictions imposed upon shipiments into the State. 

In general it may be said that the newcomer will find oppor- 
tunity, in nearly every locality in the State, to engage in bee- 
keeping in a small way along with other pursuits and that it will 
be found both pleasant and profitable. The building up of ex- 
tensive apiaries is, however, an undertaking that should be left 
to the skilled and experienced beekeeper for others are likely to 
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OLDSMAR has been called the wonder town of Florida. The 
stranger who visited this part of the Southland four years 
ago and motored from Clearwater or Tarpon Springs to 
Tampa, and came back again this winter would marvel at the won- 
derful transformation that has occurred. 

At a point some fifteen miles west of the city of Tampa, in what 
a few short years ago was a forest of virgin pine trees, with here 
and there vast tracts of palmettos, today is found the wonder town 
of Oldsmar, while all around is a thriving farming community. 

First to buy 37,500 acres of this beautiful wilderness, which up to 
that time had been inhabited only by rabbits and feathered crea- 
tures; then to cut down the trees, dig out the stumps, grub out the 
bushes and palmettos; next to plow it up and turn this fertile soil 
in to farm tracts; has been the work of the Reolds Farm Company^ 
an organization composed largely of Mr. R. E. Olds, the million- 
aire automobile manufacturer. Mr. Olds came to the West Coast 
of Florida several years ago and immediately recognized its won- 
derful possibilities as an agricultural community. He proved his 
interest in exchanging his good money for thirteen thousand five 
hundred acres of Florida's wonderful soil, and immediately formed 
-a company and started Oldsmar. ^ 

The farm section well under way, a town site was staked out, 
streets were laid out, blocks staked off and lots offered for sale. 
Farm tracts and city lots began to sell- aiid houses- sprung up, 
almost over night. 

To interest prospective farm buyers, an experimental farm was 
started, in charge of a competent farm expert and experiments 
were made as to the most productive crops that would grow_ in 
the soil of the Oldsmar section. A co-operative farm proposition 
was offered, whereby 
the big company farm 
■aided in planting and 
Tlaryesting the crops , of 
t^e'- early settlers, so 
"t'^at even those with 
limited agricultural ex- 
'perience, might be suc- 
cessful. 

"Calamity howlers" 
yvtve pessimistic about 
t^e venture. Some real 
estators who had other 
land to sell "knocked" 
t^e quality of t^e soil 
and told the Northern 
"visitors that the land 
was wet and a whole 
lot of other discourag- 
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jnar sot busy and drained the land and kept erecting- more farm 
bnildinss on their farm tracts. 

All the time the town was growing — new streets were laid out. 
Ornamental parkways were 
created in the middle of 
broad avenues. The streets 
were given a coating of shell 
of which the bay offered thou- 
sands of tons. Cement side- 
walks and curbing were 
built along- all principal 
streets and as the houses ap- 
peared, new enterprises came 
in. 

The town has now an elec- 
tric light plant, an ice factory, 
a planing mill and wood 
manufacturing concern, a 
lum1)er yard, a Inrush factory 
and a cement block concern. 
The Oldsmar Farm Tractor 
was established here and now 
maintains a large manufac- 
turing plant. 

The town boasts of a good 
hotel, a drug store, hardware 
store, several groceries, 
photographer, restaurant, two 
garages, plumber, several 
real estate concerns, and other business enterprises. 

The Oldsmar bank was organized and lately moved into their 
new building, which is one of the most ornamental structures in 
the town. 

So many towns in Florida that had a meteoric growth sprung 
up like ant hills and then stopped growing, but not so with Olds- 
mar. It is one of the towns with millions back of it, that is 

following a regular 
prearranged program, 
a town where new 
buildings come along 
according to schedule 
and appear just as 
rapidly as the last one 
is sold to a new Olds- 
mar resident; another 
plan is being very 
consistently carried 
out. Although here- 
tofore no very elab- 
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been erected, all that 
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them bear the mark of good taste and no mean looking houses are 
allowed to be built within the city limits. 

From the laying out of the first street in the town a well defined 
plan has been followed. Unlike most of the mushroom variety of 
new towns, where no thought has been given to how the place will 
look in years to come, Oldsmar was planned for the future. Its 
wide streets, wider avenues and splendid parkways, all show the 
great care taken in arranging for what the city will be when it 
becomes one of the great cities of Florida. And why not a great 
city? 

With railroad facilities, on the main line of brick highway be- 
tween St. Petersburg and Tampa, with miles of frontage on the 
most beautiful land-locked harbor on old Tampa Bay, nearer by 
water by twenty miles to St. Petersburg than Tampa, Oldsmar 
may be another Tampa in twenty years. 

The business section of Oldsmar faces the city park. This is 
the Plaza. It has been adorned with a variety of native palm trees 
and other tropical plants. In the center is an alligator pond, some 
of these 'gators being from six to ten feet long. The largest is 
said to be three hundred years old. The business section will' 
eventually form a hollow square. The type of buildings so far 
are attractive in appearance and each new one erected has been 
larger and more ornamental than the ones before. If this still con- 
tinues, as there is every reason to believe, Oldsmar five years 
from now will compete with many a Florida town many times its 
age. That it has accomplished many times the achievements of 
most places and doubled itself several times in the three years of 
its existence, is the reputation it has established and of which it 




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Opportunities for Cattle Raising 

is justly proud. So many towns of ten years' life has grown to the 
size of Oldsmar. Many towns of that age cannot possess a bank 
and manufacturing concerns such as found in Oldsmar. 

Oldsmar's location has had a marked influence on its rapid 
growth. Situated only fifteen miles from Tampa, on the Tampa 
and Gulf Coast division of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, also 
served every two hours by an auto bus line from Clearwater, Tar- 
pon Springs and Tampa, with connections in one direction to 
Plant City and Lakeland and the other way to St. Petersburg. The 
town has good accommodations for the visitor stopping there. 

Oldsmar has ten miles of water frontage on Old Tampa Ray 
which in the future will be one of its greatest assets. Up to this 
time the development company has not extended its operations to 
the shore line. Here, ift the near future, will be established a big 
residential wirf1:er colony where a highly restricted class of homes 
will be built. A beautiful bay shore drive will be constructed, 
flanked on the shore side by ornamental palms and beautiful shrub- 
bery and on the other sid'e will be built a concrete sea wall. A 
long city pier will go out many feet into old Tampa Bay where 
large boats will land. 

In the center of this colony will be erected a mammoth win- 
ter tourists' hotel, the plans for which have already been drawn 
and on which construction will be started during the coming 
summer. 

A part of Oldsmar faces on Lake Butler, one of the most beau- 
tiful fresh water lakes in all Florida and several streams anil 
small bays extend into a port of the vast property. 

T arge sums of money have been spent to accomplish the won- 
der^'ul results that are shown in Oldsmar today; and the very near 
future will see still largef amounts expended. When one stops 
to think that t'-is town has been built during the war period — 
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and how badly everythmg has been handicapped by lack of mate- 
rials and a greater lack of proper transportation facilities, you can 
imagine what great things are likely to happen now that conditions 
are becoming more normal. Oldsmar is bound to have a big 
boom during the next twelve months. The number of substantial 
buildings, beautiful bungalows and farm houses erected during 
this war period speaks Afolumes for what can be expected during the 
next three years. 

If you are looking for a home in Florida, it would seem as if 
you ought to be able to find it in Oldsmar. Oldsmar has such a 
variety of things to offer you that it seems as if you oug'ht to "find 
ix somewhere among its 37,000 odd acres. It offers you almost 
everything to select from but the life of a big city, and most people 
come to Florida to get away from the noise and confusion of 
things, at least for a part of the year. 

Do you want to till Florida's fertile soil, raise regular farm 
crops and be a producer on the face of the earth? Are you wishing 
to plant a truck farm or raise small fruits? Do you want to raise 
oranges or cultivate grapes for a livelihood or a diversion; then 
look over Oldsmar's great possibilities. 

Do you want to find a quiet place under Southern skies where 
you can forget winter as you have known it all your life, a place 
where you can build your own pretty bungalow and grow flower- 
ing vines and wonderful blooming plants all winter long. If you 
are used to a cool bath in your own tub at home, you can bathe 
every day all winter in the waters of old Tampa Bay, or if you 
like it moderately warm in your tub, you can find the same pleasing 
bath in the same bay waters at least half of the days of December 
and January; then look into Oldsmar. If you are in St. Petersburg 




A Grape Nursery Near Oldsmar 



EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE 

Oldsmar Hard ware and Supply 
Company 

Hardware and Building Material of all Kinds 
OLDSMAR, FLORIDA 

HERE TO GROW WITH OLDSMAR AND TO HELP IT GROW 

The Pioneer Grocery 

THE FIRST IN OLDSMAR 

GOOD GROCERIES 

Particular Service, Goods of Quality, Particularly those 
Nationally Advertised 

LAWRENCE SW ANSON 

OLDSMAR FLORIDA 



. HERE TO DO YOUR 

PLUMBING 

Oldsmar Plumbinor Co. 

L. R. SENESAC, Prop. 
Now and always a Booster for Oldsmar 



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or Tampa, get a car and go out there in an hour over a .good 
brick road. You might as well ride in this direction as any other 
Look it over, it will afford a pleasant afternoon. If you don't say 
that Oldsmar's little harbor has it very much on to Bar Harbor 
in Maine or some of the wonderful little bays along the coast of 
California, you are not a good judge of water scenes. 

If you are coming to Florida to enter into agricultural pur- 
suits, investigate Oldsmar's soil. There are several varieties of 
soil here — productive dark sandy loam, black muck and rolling fruit 
lands. Thousands of dollars have been wisely invested in big, 
powerful machinery to prepare large areas of virgin soil for set- 
tlers. See some of the powerful machines dragging out big. 
stumps from the new land being opened to farming. See the 
smaller tractors hauling them into huge heaps where they are 
burned. These are daily sights around Oldsmar and very often 
attracts crowds of curious visitors from near-by places. 

As an agricutlural section Oldsmar has proven itself to be a 
success. 

The crops of Irish potatoes, sugar cane, corn, rice, cabbages, 
turnips and other early vegetables show what can be done around 
Oldsmar. One crop of cabbage paid for the land on which it was 
produced. It is a practical farm program to raise three crops on 
the same field in one year, and four crops are possible. 




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3Iiiiiy Beautiful Uunieis Like Tlie.se iu UltlKinar 

The climate around Oldsmar is a delightful one. The large 
areas of fresh and salt water in the immediate neighborhood and 
its nearness to the Gulf of Mexico, furnishes water protection that 
tempers the cool north winds during the winter months. This 
makes agricultural possibilities a great reality and at the same 
time insures there being profitable. On the other hand these 
soft, balmy breezes tempered with the fine laden zephyrs of the 
miles of native forests, insure an atmosphere of good health, of 
which Oldsmar is very proud. Only one time in seventeen years 
has the weather ever gone above 97 degrees here and although an 
occasional frost visits this section in the winter, freezes are very 
rare indeed. 



IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A 

Safe and Prof itatle 
Investment 

You are invited to investigate OLDSMAR, tke wonder- ft 
ful new town w^kick kas made suck rapid grow^tk. It is ~ 
onlij tkree ijears old, but it kas accompksked more in 
tkree ijears tkan some otker places kave in ten. It is 
going akead in kealtkij, successful stxjle todaij. 

Come and See for YourseH 

Tke prices oi ^vell located town lots range from $350 up- 
ward. You can get a ckoice 50 foot lot for $500. Good 
land for sale in tracts of 1 acres or more, at $D0 per acre 
upward, depending upon location and improvements. Some 
small tracts of extra value, close to town, su.itable for close- ^ 
in suktirkan komes, at $400 per acre. Cask discount or ■ 
easi] terms on all sales. 

See OLDSMAR sure, telore yoti butj. Location: 15 miles west 
ol Tampa, on Tampa Bay. Take auto bus from Tampa Postoiiice, or 
Tampa &" Gull Coast trains from Tampa Union Railroad Station. 

FREE BOOKLETS AND DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE. 

Reolds Farms Co. 

OLDSMAR, FLORIDA CPineUos Countij) 



aLL THE tourists in Florida this season are especiallj' in- 
vited to visit Oldsmar, the wonderful new town on Tampa 
Bay, 15 miles wfest of Tampa, and see for yourselves the 
amazing- progress made by this enterprising young town — 
see the variety of attractions, advantages and opportunities here 
for you, whether you stay a few weeks as a visitor, or locate in 
this happy community for the rest of your life. 

If you hunt all over Florida, it is doubtful if you could find la 
new place which has accomplished so much in such a short time, 
and is going ahead so fast today. From pine woods to a success- 
ful town, all in three years, is a big jump; yet Oldsmar is growing 
today with ithe expectation of becoming an important city. 

The chief advantages and attractions of Oldsmar are location, 
transportation, soil, climate, tropical scenery, fishing, hunting, 
.salt water bathing, pure air from the pine woods and the sea. fine 
drinking water, artesian wells, good roads, and a progressive com- 
munity determined to make Oldsmar a big city. 

LOCATION: Oldsmar is on Tampa Bay fifteen miles west of 
Tampa, the second largest city in Florida. Travel by the Seaboard 
Railroad (Tampa & Gulf Coast Division) from the Union Station, 
Tampa; two good trains daily in each direction. Or come by auto- 
mobile bus from Tampa postoflice, hourly service, six bus lines In 
operation; good paved road all the way. By automobile, go w^est- 
ward out Lafayette Street and Grand Central Avenue, passing the 
Rocky Point Golf Club. Oldsmar is at the north end of Tampa 
Bay (salt water) at the point where the railroad, the bay and 
tlie good auto road come to a focus — a logical location for a 
prosperous city. 




W'ayside Inn, Oldsmar 

BUSINESS: Oldsmar is an all-the-year-round town. It has 
four leading lines of activity: Farming, manufacturing, fruit- 
growing and catering to the tourists. All the departments are 
being further developed at the present time. The manufacturing- 
district is situated along the railroad, far enough away from the 
bay shore not to handicap the development of the -water-front for 
the residents and tourists. It is not a case of "going to have" 
factories; Oldsmar already has five manufacturing enterprises in 
operation, in three years, and is planning for more. The brick 
automobile highway for trucking and teaming, and the railroad 
for transportation, make a satisfactory combination; labor is 
plentiful and this manufacturing district gives Oldsmar its foun. 
dation for all-the-year-around financial prosperity. 

OLDSMAR INVITES YOU 



OLDSMAR BOARD OF TRADE: This successful organization 
lias accomplished much for the progress of Oldsmar. It is made 
up of the enterprising -manuf acturers, merchajnts and other citizens 
of Oldsmar and vicinity. They have adopted a live-and-let-live 
policy, and there is a spirit of co-operation and muitual iielp; 
"buy it in Oldsmar, boost for Oldsmar," is the slogan. Write to 
the Oldsmar Board of Trade, Oldsmar, Pla., for free booklets about 
Oldsmar and Pinellas County. 

TOURISTS ACCOMMODATIONS: There is a good hotel, the 
Wayside Inn, and Gaunt's Restaurant. Two garages do repair 
work, sell supplies and provide storage accommodations and 
service. The Palms, under the management of Mr. and Mrs. Mc- 
Nally, and the Sooy Building have apartments for rent. Hunting 
parties for quail, alligators, rabbits, possum, coon and other game, 
are piloted by experienced guides, including John D. Patterson, 
who has a long record as a successful hunter and fisherman. 
Boats and launches for fishing parties, automobiles for tours and 
other accommodations are ready on call. 



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Oldsmar Tractor Co. 



Oldsmar and the large area of choice farm land around this 
wonderful town have made faster progress than any other new 
town of its age in Florida. Oldsmar is in peerless IPinellas 
County on the good automobile road connecting Tampa with St. 
Petersburg and other West Coast towns. This excepitional loca- 
tion enables the town to appeal successfully to tourists, winter 
residents, farmers, investors, manufacturers, fruit growers and 
sportsmen. Oldsmar is a good place to make , money, and have 
an enjoyable time fishing, hunting, boating, playing golf, etc. It 
is a good place to live all the year every year. 

The man who made Oldsmar possible is Mr. R. E. Olds, of Lan- 
sing, Michigan. He organized the Reolds Farms Co., -who pur- 
chased 37,500 acres of land, said to contain the largest area of 
good farming soil in a choice location in Florida. The soil is good 
sandy loam, capable of producing from three to five crops a year 
on the isame field, and the Company is selling this land in tracts 
of ten to 40 acres at reasonable prices on easy terms, or giving a 
discount for cash. 

The Carmen Grape Company recently selected Oldsmar as its 
permanent home for growing a large number of varieties of earlv 
Florida bunch grapes for table use. This company had interests 
in vineyards in fifteen different locations and their decision to 
select Oldsmar as the site for the establishment of a larger 



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eiiiterprise is eloquent testimony regarding the quality of the 
soil. Florida grapes can beat California grapes into the market 
hy from four to six weeks, being the earliest on the market any- 
where in the United States. They produce large crops the third 
summer when properly cared for, at which time earnings at the 
i-ate of $500 or more per acre have been made. 




Grown by Carmen Grape Co. 

The Oldsmar Tractor Company occupies a big brick building, 
oue of the largest machine shops in Florida, outside of Jackson- 
ville and Tampa. The Company has been manufacturing for some 
months a powerful farm tractor which sells for $375 and is giving 
great satisfaction. This machine is said to be the lowest-priced 
tractor on the market, and yet iit does work equal to that of more 
expensive machines. The demand is rapidly increasing, the com- 
pany is taking on more men and is making plans to double its 
capacity. 

Wayside Inn is an attractive all-the-year-round hotel at rea- 
sonable rates. In the winter season, many itourists come here on 
account of getting good accommodations at reasonable prices. 
The combination of pine breezes from the forests and salt air 
from Tampa Bay is said to be one of the most healthful environ- 
ments, and has proved a big attraction. The proprietor of the 
hotel is Col. George Selby, who conducted it so successfully last 
season. 

The Welch Manufacturing Company operates a big lumber 
mill, and dry kiln, and is turning into money some of the fifty-five 
million feet of marketable Southern pine and cypress trees of the 

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Reolds Farms Company. This company has also established a 
planit f 01- the manufacture of creosote paving- blocks, some of 
which have been used in Oldsmar street paving. 

Mr. L. L. Roberts is the proprietor of another saw mill in 
Oldsmar, and has already established himself successfully and is 
doing a large business. 

J. Bornstein is the proprietor of the Oldsmar Electric and Ice 
Copmany, which furnishes the town with electric lights and ice. 
Mr. Bornstein also operates a garage. 

The Palmeitto Brush and Fibre Company has a factory at 
Oldsmar in which scrub brushes are made from the fibre of the 
roots of the saw palmetto. There is a greater demand for these 
brushes than this company can supply, and the fibre is the best 
on the market for this purpose. This company is making use of 
the roots which were formerly burned to get them out of the 
way in the process of clearing the land. 



GAH ACE. 





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Oldsmar Garag^e 



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The Reolds Farms Company which started the general im- 
provement work in and around Oldsmar, sell real estate and has 
in use one of the biggest land-clearing machines in America. It 
is a steel stump-puller, which w^eighs 90,000 pounds, uses a steel 
cable 1% inches thick and 400 feet long, enabling it to extract 
stumps from two acres at a setting. This machine requires a 
crew of 14 men, and it has the pulling power of three ordinary 
railroad locomotives. In addition to this big machine, the Com- 
pany has a number of tractors and other up-to-date machines. 

The Farrington Ceinent Block factory is manufacturing bricks, 
blocks, pillars, vases and other useful objects from cement; its 
business is increasing. 

Oldsmar has made more progress during the summer and fall 
of 1919 than in any other similar period. About twenty-five new 
houses have recently been compleited, a mile and a half of addi- 
tion cement side-walks have been laid, in addition to about a 
mile of street paving with shell material, cement curbs and gut- 
ters; a boat channel has been dredged 50 feet wide, and 800 feet 
long, from the town shore front out to deep water in Tampa Bay; 
a sea wall has been constructed in front of the site of the pro- 
posed big new winter tourist hotel, and the space back of this sea 
wall has been filled in with white sand dredged from the boat 



WONDERFUL OLDSMAR 

channel; large additional areas of land are being cleared and 
drained, ready for new settlers, and in the town itself there are 
large lots 50 feet wide for sale as sites for winter residences ,or 
permanent homes in this progressive town. 

The Oldsmar State Bank is established in a costly white glazed 
brick building, with ornamenital white tile trimming, and green 
tile roof. The offices of the Reolds Farms Company are also 
located in this building, and the second floor finished for use a.s a 
public hall in which are held meetings of the Oldsmar Board of 
Trade, the Oldsmar Farmers' Alliance, The Oldsmar Woman's 
Club, the Oldsmar Hunting and Fishing Club, the Oldsmar Fat 
Men's Club, etc. 




E!arly Irish Potatoes at Oldsmar 

The First Methodist Church of Oldsmai- is the only church 
organization so far, and it is expected that before long some of 
the other denominations will get their members together for 
similar action. The Oldsmar Grammar School carries pupils 
from the first through the eigh.th grades, and is under the direc- 
tion of capable teachers who have made excellent records. The 
iiigh school pupils are transported at the county expense to the 
nearest standard high school at Clearwater, the county seat. 

The Tampa & Gulf Coast division of the Seaboard Air Line 
Railroad runs through Oldsmar on its way from Tampa to St. 
Petersburg, giving four trains daily, with through Pullman car 
service to Jacksonville during the tourist season. 

The brick-paved automobile road through Oldsmar is a delight 
to motorists, and enables them to make dozens of delightful 
tours to points of interest in the surrounding country with speed 
and comfort. Brick Automobile roads connect all of the important 
towns in Pinellas County and an asphalt block pavement is being- 
finished this year between Oldsmar and Tampa. Good roads are 
one of the chief attractions in the vicinity of Oldsmar. 
SEE OLDSMAR FIRST 

See Oldsmar sure, before you buy land or locate for the season. 
Oldsmar is one of the wonders of Florida. Three years ago the 
site of this town was a pine fores.t, and in that short time, by the 
expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars, a beautiful town 
has been created on Tampa Bay. The citizens of this town are 
largely Northern people and Southerners who have been attracted 
here by its prosperity. The people are full of enterprise, and the 
.si>irit of co-operation. Beyond question this town has an even 
more brilliant future. 

When you visit this town, just remember that everything has 
been done" in three years, and then try to picture what it will be 
three years from now. Under such conditions, town lots and farm 
lands in the vicinity of Oldsmar should prove safe and profitable 
investments. Come and see Oldsmar yourself, or write to the 
Reolds Farms Company, Oldsmar, Florida, for free booklets and 
other information. 

OLDSMAR INVITES YOU 



i TARPON SPRINGS I 

f^ " ~» « « » <• «« — — « « < tf »r1 

' \ ^ ^^ THE lover of the beautiful, it is easily understood why 
i O Tarpon Springs has been called the "Venice of the 
\^ South." 

The (jreat Guiding Hand that planned all things beautiful in 
nature, was particularly kind to this particular locality, and gave 
it such a setting trat it is the envy of all other towns in Florida, 
A study of the surroundings of this little city and its adjacent ter- 
ritory, is sufficient to show the appropriateness of the title. Never 
was a city more prettily set in the midst of a network of bayous. 
"^ The hand of man has aided the Hand of Nature in beautifying 
these natural, beautiful bayous, and the first thought the stranger 
receives on his first visit is a reminder of the old world. He re- 
calls Italy and her wonderful Venice. He see the sparkling waters, 
blue and yellow, under the sun of another tropical land, curbed 
shores lined with more than a mile of concrete construction, which 
is almost as dazzling in the sunlight as the marbled walls of the 
Old World town. All around this wonderful curving bayou is 
a concrete walk and drive that visitors come for miles to see, 
where great volumes of water, at certain seasons of the year, boil 
up out of a deep hole. It is entirely surrounded by a sloping park 
that runs back to the beautiful boulevard behind. 

On one of the borders of the bayou is Medicinal Spring, the 
waters of which has proved of particular value to certain digestive 
ailments. It is told how in earlier times the Indian came 
great distances to drink of its curative waters and that its 
medicinal prop- 
erties were i 
known to strange 
tribes far up in- 
to the Northland. 

Tarpon Springs 
is located in Pin- 
ellas County, the h 
first West Coast 
stop of import- 
ance on the main 
line of the Atlan- 
tic Coast Line 
Railroad, and is 
also reached by 
the Tampa and 
Gulf Coast 
branch of the 
Seaboard Air 
Line. It has al- 
most five thou- 
sand population. 
The land around 




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Tarpon Springs Municipal Building 



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Tarpon Springs slopes gently backward from the shore line and is 
more rolling than is found for miles around. Many acres of 
oranges and grapefruit groves are found in this locality and many 
new groves have been set out in the last few years. Citrus experts 
pronounce the soil particularly adapted to their culture, and it is 
predicted that this section is destined to become one of the most 
important in the state. 

Lake Butler, a fresh water lake, eight miles long and a mile and 
a half wide, lies about two miles to the east of the city, and is 
reached by a brick-paved road. Here is found some very good 
bass fishing and numerous other fresh water lakes are found 
within short distances of the city. 

Tarpon Spring is about four miles from the Gulf of Mexico on 
the beautiful Anclote River, which, a little farther up, is one of the 
most beautiful streams in the state. Its banks are lined with a 
wild tangle of subtropical scenerj^. Its graceful curves, wooded 
shores and l)eautiful vistas, afford a never ending delight to the 
visitor. Wild birds inhabit its forests and many alligator can be 
seen in its waters. This river affords most excellent fishing. 

Tarpon Springs is a city of up-to-date improvements and mod- 
ern homes. Within the city limits there are about seven miles of 
brick paved streets and over a mile of asphalt. Miles of cement 
and concrete sidewalks line the city streets. The municipal build- 
ings are new and in keeping with the progress of the city. The 
new City Hall is a structure of imposing design and is seated in 
the central part of the town. 

The cit}' is lighted by electricity and is very proud of its 
"White Way" which runs along its principal business street. The 
class of business houses and small shops rank very favorably with 
those of much larger places and the class of merchandise offered 
for sale is most up-to-date and varied in assortment. 




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The city is 
served by an ar- 
tesian water 
system with the 
latest type crude 
oil Diesel en- 
gine, capable of 
maintaining the 
supply of water 
in the two steel 
tanks of 135,000 
gallons. 

The city is 
proud of its 
schools. The 
buildings are of 
brick construc- 
tion and are 

modern in every way. The grounds are spacious and the play- 
grounds are well equipped with apparatus. 

The city is well represented with churches of various denomi- 
nations. There are several civic organizations which are vitally in- 
terested in the thrift and prosperity of the town. The Board of 
Trade has reorganized this year and is equipped to do big things 
for the town. It maintains a secretary who is at Board of Trade 
headquarters every day to aid in the work of the organization and 
to serve in rendering information to strangers in the city. 

Tarpon Springs offers the stranger a number of good hotels 




A Beautiful ^iVater Scene 




A Ten-Year-Old Grapefruit Tree 



w. 



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THE 



TARPON INN 



AND 
COTTAGES 




OPEN DECEMBER TO MAY 
Exclusive Clientele :: :: :: American Plan 

Howard Y. Dalton, Manager Formerly The Belleview 



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The Sponge Exchange Bank 

Tarpon Springs, Florida 



Tlie Financial Home of tlie Tourist. 

Cnecks on tjour liome bank, and coupons 
lianalea witlaout excliange. 



A. M. Lowe, President G. E. Noblit, Vice-President 

R. W. Pinholster, Cashier J. M. Mitchell, Vice-President 

H. W. Craiff. Asst. Cashier 



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for their accommodation; all but one of which is open the year 
round. 

Hunting and fishing among the West Coast bays, islands and 
lakes around Tarpon Springs is excellent. Red fish, trout, grouper 
and other well known varieties of salt water fish abound, and dur- 
ing the migratory season when mackerel, king fish and tarpon are 
running, these fish are taken in quantities. 

The hunter has fine quail shooting and squirrels, rabbits and 
turkeys are found in abundance along with other small game. 

As a port town Tarpon Springs leads the world in the sponge 
industry. This is carried on by Greek sponge divers, who go out 
in the Gulf of Mexico from ten to twenty miles from shore, in 
water varying from twenty to one hundred feet in depth and, clad 
in diving suits, get the sponges from the rocks and coral reefs. 

There are over two hundred vessels of from five to one hundred 
tons' burden in this fleet, each engaged in the industry. 

A visitor to the quays where there are always sponge vessels 
unloading is astonished at the marvelous sight before him. He 
wonders if he has not suddenly been transported to the other side 
of the world. Before him is another harbor of Crete, just as he 
has seen it in some wonderful painting. For the Americanized 
Greek sponge fishermen will not patronize American boats or 
American rigging and still uses the same craft as back at home 
" 'neath the sunny skies of his native land." His boats are queer 
shaped to American eyes. They are painted in wide stripes of blue 
and yellow, and his rigging is shaped like those we see on the 
earliest types of Eastern water craft. The fleet presents the most 
picturesque sight the visitor has seen so far in Florida, and it looks 




Uue of ttoe Greek Fisbini; Fleet 



b: 



:s 



Hotel I Madole 




Accommndales One Hundred. Ituning Water, Steam Hea>, Private Baths. 
OPEN YEAR ROUND TAKPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA 

SAME MANAGEMENT AS LEBANON. CHAUTAUQUA. N. Y. 



THE 
TAVERN 



Tkis is not a Hotel 
It is an attractive 

Private Cottage 

witli all tke comforts 



of 



lOur own home 



Wkicli Opens its doors tliis winter 

TO TWENTY GUESTS 

You must see 6ur attractive 

FLORIDA WINTER COTTAGE 

It is so vastlvj different from evertjtliin^ else in tnis 
section tliat it will appeal to vjovr. 

Rates $20 per week per person. G. E. ROGtRo 



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A AVater Carnival in Tarpon Bayou 

more like a comic opera setting than a real harbor and real 
American boats. 

The Greek colony consists of about 1,500 persons, mostly segre- 
gated in a part of the city near the sponge exchange, at the north 
city limits. One might live for months in Tarpon Springs without 
knowing there was such a business there as the sponge business, 
yet it is a most interesting feature. This industry yields about a 
million dollars a year to Tarpon Springs. 

'Close to the city are 100 acres of high, undulating land which 
has been made into one of the finest golf grounds in the South. 
A neat clubhouse is located on a point from which every portion 
of the links is visible. 



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Scene from Club House 




WILMAR 

Peanut Butter 



"So Different From the Ordinary"" 

Wilmar Manufacturing Co. 

PHILADELPHIA, PENN. 






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uinjauu 




NUT MARGARIN 

is a delicious, appetizing, ■wliolesome food, 
product, containing all tne food value 
and appetite appeal of tlie test spread 
for bread. 

It encourages real liome economy. 
KINGNUT is sold on a complete satis-- 
f action or money Lack basis. 

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Beautiful Sceneri^, 

Good Roads, 

Fine Fisliing, Batliing, 

Wouderkil Orange Groves, 

Deliglitful Climate, 

Excellent Scliools, 

Electric Liglits. 

COME 

AND LOOK IT OVER 

Dunedin Board ol Trade 



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President 

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g VISITOR standing on the shore at Dunedin, and looking 
westward across the blue waters of Clearwater Bay, across 
the sandy key beyond and far out across the Gulf of Mex- 
ico, might think as old Baboa did, four hundred years ago, when 
he first saw the great Pacific ocean: "What is there -away out 
there beyond the horizon? How many miles away are other dis- 
tant lands?" And he is brpught to the realization of the largness 
of this big world of ours, and the puny smallness of himself and 
his own little world. 

Turning from the wide expanse of rippling sea, and the sight 
of low tropically clad Florida keys, the stranger beholds a curv- 
ing shore line of white sand, fringed with palmettos, with here 
and there a giant water oak standing as grim sentinels to watch 
over their smaller brothers. Long piers extend out into the bay 
with here and there an ornamental boat house to show that the 
sensible people of this shore town believe in the water pleasures 
which a kind hand of providence has most generously loestowed 
upon them. 

Back of the beach and the 
boat houses, are shaded 
drives winding along the 
shore line; drives that are 
the envy of less fortunate 
inland towns, and affording 
the visitors and home people 
a s well, with wonderful 
views of a never ending 
change o f colored waters, 
of rippling waves and palm 
dotted islands. As you walk 
along this spray kissed beaoh 
line you scent the salt la- 
dened zephyrs of the waters 
of the great gulf; and count 
the water fowls skimming 
across i t s placid bosom. 
Great pelicans flop down 
into the water to gobble up 
a breakfast of minnows and 
fill their enormous meal 
pouches and then quietly 
swim around within a stones 
throw of you until they en- 
tirely devour their mornings 
catch. Tern, gulls, crane, 
duck, snipe and all sorts of 
water fowl are in evidence, 
and perchance, a great 
American eagle may soar 




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''The Better Place to Stop" 

ROOMS SINGLE OR EN SUITE, WITH BATH 

MEALS AT ANY HOUR ON ORDER 

We especially cater to auto parties. Order your dinner in ad- 
vance of spending an hour looking at our 
beautiful water scenery 



SHORE DINNERS CHICKEN and WAFFLE DINNERS 

On the Dixie Highway Opposite the Little White Church 
PHONE 223-X 

DUNEDIN, FLORIDA 



Dunedin Heights 

IN THE HEART OF DUNEDIN 
Acceptable Restrictions 

HOMES OF CHARACTER 



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Main Street, Dunedin in tbe Business Section. 

majestically across the horizon and impress you with his graceful 
evolutions. 

Turn further inland, and the visitor is met by a sight that can 
only be seen in some such rich agricultural section as found on 
the Pinellas peninsula. Here and there are acres of natural beauty, 
mighty forest trees still untouched by the hand of man, surround- 
ed by rare sub-tropical foliage, denoting rich agricultural possibil- 
ities still undeveloped. Nestled in this natural profusion are some 
of the most wonderful orange and grapefruit groves in all Florida. 
Their bright green leaves and golden yellow fruit make a pleasing 
contrast to the eye of the beholder. If you come from some dis- 
tant Northern state and are not familiar with the huge clusters of 
these citrus products, you cannot help but wonder at how the 
young branches hold their golden load of luscious fruit. 

In between the orange groves and the beach, lies the little city 




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of Dunedin. Its people would resent j'ou calling it a town or a 
village, for it has a mayor and a town council, if you please, and 
this is one of the best governed municipalities on the West Coast. 
Everywhere is noticed an air of thrift and prosperity. You don't 
see tumbled down 'houses or weather beaten ones in Dunedin. 
The newer ones are all of the modern bungalow type and fresh 
paint is always in evidence. You see well kept lawns, bright 
colored flowers and .beautiful shrubbery everywhere throughout 
the residential district. In the business section you find an added 
show of prosperity. The stores and shops all bespeak good bus- 




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iness for the local merchant, 'by the attractive display of fresh 
merchandise on -his shelves and the class of up-to-date articles 
offered for sale. 

The city of Dunedin has a thousand people. It has paved 
streets, artesian water, electric lights, a good sewer system, a 
fine school and all the other progressive and essential requisites 
necessary to make it one of the most thriving places in all Florida. 
It pleases the eye of a stranger and is the pride of every citizen. 
They fell you in Dunedin that while many new families move into 
Dunedin, very few ever move out. This surely speaks satisfaction 
on the part of her citizens, that counts for many things to insure 
a rapid growth for its future. 

The stranger is impressed with the city's well lighted streets 
and at the brilliancy of its "W'hite Way" which extends the entire 
length of the business section. To the visitor who comes here for 
the first time, Dunedin pleases his eye and delights his soul, and 
makes him in spite of himself, want to stop for rest and enjoy- 
ment, and spend a time at least, away from the world of com- 
mercial bickerings and industrial strife. 

To many, this short stop develops into a winter's sojourn and 
when you count the increase in population for the past few years, 
it proves the old local adage about "getting the Florida sand in 
your shoes, you stay on forever." Dunedin must 'have a variety 
of sand all its own. for many who have come to spend a winter 
now own the finest homes in the place. 

Dunedin is said to be one of the most healthful towns in the 
state. Dame nature has been very kind in giving it natural advan- 
tages. 'Built on rising ground, which slopes gradually backwards 
from the gulf of Mexico, the most perfect drainage is afforded. 




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H. W. BIVINS, Pres. L. C. RAY, Cashier 

Bank ol Dunedin, Dunedin, Fla. 

CAPITAL $20,000.00 

Six years ago when the organization of this bank was 
proposed, it was so popular with the citizens and others 
that the stock was over-subscribed by 33 per cent. 

Courtesy and reliability are our mottoes. New accounts 
are gladly received. 

Our directors are: J. M. McClung, Ezra P. Young, 
B. C. Bass, H. W. Bi.vins, A. C. Clewis and A. J. Grant. 



DEPOSITS ON DEC. 31. 

1913 $41,597.31 1916 $47,856.87 

1914.; 45,951.68 1917 69,261.40 

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Company 

M. R. THARIN, Proprietor 

EDUCATOR SHOES, PHOENIX HOSIERY, 
KABO CORSETS 

Detroit Vapor Stoves, Woolsey's Paints, Keen Cutter 
Knives. Diamond Edge Tools. 

Chase & Sanborn's Coffees, Tetley's Teas, Royal Scarlett 
Canned Goods, Stone's Cakes. 



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All about are pine trees mellowing the salt breezes of the Gulf. 
There is life-giving tonic in the air from either side, with no 
contaminating influences to spoil its healthfulness. 

As to location, there isn't a more beautiful one in Florida. 
Some day some great hotel will be built here — that is if someone 
who is looking for an ideal place for a great hotel sees Dunedin. 
This town needs hotels. In time it will need many. At present it 
has two tourist hotels and several boarding houses and its ca- 
pacity for accommodating winter visitors is sadly taxed each year. 
What it needs at present more than anything else is an influx of pro- 
gressive capitalists who could turn over their dollars quickly by 
building many more up-to-date bungalows and rearing a large 
tourist hotel. 

Dunedin is ideally located, only three miles from Clearwater, 
the county seat. The roadway between in a few short years 
will be lined with a solid line of bayshore residences. St. Peters- 
burg is but twenty-six miles away and Tampa only the same dis- 
tance. Brick roads connect all these places and motorists find a 
never ending delight in rolling over their picturesque windings. 

Many all-year 
pleasures offer di- 
versions for the vis- 
itor i n Dunedin. 
The bay and the 
gulf beyond affords 
some of the best 
salt water fishing 
on the coast. Tar- 
pon, king fish and 
mackerel are 
caught here during 
the season and 
trout, grouper, chan- 
nel bass, snapper, 
sheepshead and 

many other varie- 
ties afford excellent 
fishing the year 
round. Boating, sail- 
ing, crabbing and 
bathing are other 
amusements that can 
be enjoyed twelve 
months in the year. 

Dunedin is on 
the A. C. L. Rail- 
r o a d Jackonsivlle 
and St. Petersburg 
branch and good 
train service is to 
had at all times. 
Auto bus lines run 
to Tarpon Springs 
and Clearwater, 
connecting a t the Victoria Drive 




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DUNEDIN 

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latter place with St. Petersburg and Tampa. Dunedin has four 
churches: Methodi.st Baptist, Episcopal and Presbyterian. There 
is a town library, a woman's club and a board of trade. 

Its largest industry is the L. B. Skinner Manufacturing Com- 
pany's plant -which is one of the largest citrus fruit packing house 
equipment and irrigation machinery manufacturing concerns in 
Florida. It has a cigar factory, a fiihery, arid many retail busi- 
ness concerns. 

Round about Dunedin is a very fertile agricultural country and 
general trucking and raising of farm products could be done suc- 
cessfully.The land heretofore reclaimed from its natural beauty 
has been largely devoted to the growing of citrus fruits. Many 
acres of orange and grapefruit groves produce thousands of boxes 
of these golden fruit fruits every year. One of them contains 
over 200 acres and is said to be one of the best iDayi.ng in the state. 

That the mild, climate of Dunedin is particularly suited to the 
culture of oranges is proven by the fact that a number of orange 
groves in the vicinity have stood the ravages of time for more 
than thirty-live years, and are still in a fine state of cultivation 
and bear abundantly every year. 

It i.s said that more citrus fruit is shipped from Dunedin every 
year than any other station — with but one exception — on the A.- 
C. L. Railroad's Jacksonville and St. Petersburg branch. 

Dunedin has a $5,000 city dock for the use of its citizens and 
visitors. The stranger goes down here fn the early evening to 
watch the fishing parties come in or to watch the bathers in the 
water. It affords a pleasant resting place on summer evenings 
where you get the cool gulf breezes, or from which you see the 
net fishermen returning from their day's labors. 




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Place oi 

BUSINESS 

J. Albert Springer 

Opposite R. R. Station 



Pinellas Specials 
"Four Roses" 
"Tampa Port" 

All good Clear Havana to- 
bacco cigars and all 
made in 

DUNEDIN 

If your dealer does not 
handle these brands we will 
send them direct to you by 
the boy. 

Pinellas Special Cigar 
Company 



M. W. MOORE 

Real Estate and Rents 



Tow^n and Country 

Property 

Improved or Unimproved 

See me for Houses and 

Appartments 

Furnished or Unfurnished 



Orange Groves 



Dunedin, 



Florida 



DUNEDIN'S 

RELIABLE 

Grocery and Dry Goods 

STORE 

Fair Dealing, Courteous 
Treatment and Up-to-Date 
Merchandising has given us 
the desirable reputation that 
we possess. 

E. T. POOSER 



Dunedin, 



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A Beautiful Vista "With the Blue "Waters (i>#'#ate "TBay Beyond 



Everything about Dunedin beckons you to make it a visit. 
Come see its fine homes, its well kept lawns, its beautiful groves 
of oranges and grapefruit. Take a ride along its Victoria Drive 
and look out through delightful vistas and across the waters of 
the bay. Look beyond its low palm fringed keys to open seas, 
where great vessels sail over coral depths below. Eat a fish din- 
ner, the flesh of which was in he bay a few hours 'before, iand 
some stone crabs, the like of which you never tasted in all your 
life, and some more real things that come from the waters right 
at Dunedin. Eat it at one of Dunedin's hotels and while you are 
waiting for it to be served, go down by the beach and drink in 
some of Dunedin's natural beauty. See if you can resist it, and 




Dunedin School 



W. H. Armston 

GENERAL 

BUILDING 

CONTRACTOR 

Estimates Free 

Dunedin, Florida 

PHONE 93-X 



This Up-to Date 

General Store 

Asks for a Share of 
Your Patronage 

GROCERIES 



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General Merchandise 



BAILEY & HORNE 

Gilchrist Building 

Dunedin, Florida 



Catchers and Shippers of 

Salt 

Water 

Fish 



Dunedin 

Fish 
Company 



Thomas S. Lord 

PLUMBING 

Contractor 



I Guarantee my Work 
to comply with the City 
Plumbing Regulations. 



Dunedin, Florida 

PHONE 93-M 



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then come back and make it your home and see if you will ever 
regret it. 

Dunedin's best citizens say "you will not." 

The Dunedin Board of Trade was recently reorganized and 
has many plans for the town's improvement. They have adopted 
the slogan "Once a Dunedinite always a Dunedinite." They 
mean to make you a friend of this charming place from the Yery 
first day of your visit and continue to give you the glad hand of 
welcome all through your stay, until when it comes time for you 
to go home, you will decide to remain and give the new fellow 
"the glad hand" and in time make him a booster as well. 

These new fellows have been coming with such gr'ea-t 

regularity that i-^^^ 
ery time you com'^ 
'back to Dunedin yoiH 
are astonished at 
finding so many new 
neighbors. 

Your wife meets 
new faces at the 
Woman's Club and 
every time you get 
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Dunedin's bungalow section is made up of a large number of 
winter residents, who own their own home, and come here for the 
winter months to enjoy the wonderful winter climate, and the 
many pleasures attending a residency in this attractive Gulf Coast 
town. Dunedin has plenty of room for more of these home own- 
ers and local real estate owners are not asking exhorbitant prices 
for land for home sites. To the man who wants a home in Flori- 
da, a place to get away from the cold wintry blasts and to escape 
the snow and ice of less favored sections, a place close to nature 
and away from noise and bustle, Dunedin has a lot to offer you. 
Its one of the most beautiful spots on the coast and one that is 
sure to grow as it become better known. 

A few years ago these quiet out-of-the-way places were plenti- 
ful in Florida but are becoming scarcer every year. While Dun- 
edin has grown in population, its newer residents go on building 
in the centers of large lots, planting much shrubbery and flower 
beds around their homes, and so spreading out the town in each 
direction, that it still has the appearance of not being crowded 
and goes on maintaining an air of quiet restfulness. This plan 
will be followed in future developments and the town promises 
always to remain as it is today; an ideal, well planned and de- 
cidedly picturesque community of beautiful homes. 




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STORY of the Far East describes how three men from 
different countries visited the Orient, and for the first time 
saw a real elephant. After coming out from the tent where 
the animal was confiined, a little boy asked them what this won- 
derful beast was like. 

The one said that it was a wonderful animal, but not so won- 
derful at that, except for its trunk. That was what made it dif- 
ferent from all other animals. 

The next man said that he was really disappointed at first in 
the elephant. It was such an ordinary looking beast, but it had 
such wonderful tusks that they emmediately held his attention 
and made him forget almost everything else about it. 

Thethird man also saw very little to marvel at in the elephant. 
He thought that at best it was a queer looking creature, but almost 
with the first glance he noticed its remakable eyes. They were 
such small, beady little orbs — ^much too small for its great bulk, 
but really very remarkable eyes — much the most remarkable eyes 
he had ever seen. 

Now, these three men seeing the elephant is very much the 
way a hundred people see Haven Beach. Everybody refers at 
first to Haven Beach in pretty much the same manner they do 
about other places, and then they begin to see things about it 
that they don't see in other places. 

That's Haven Beach! a place with so many charms that you 
cannot help noticing them. Then if you see it this year and come 
back next year you find many new charms because it's a New 
Haven Beach next year for it has grown so rapidly in a twelve 
months' absence that you hardly recognize it. 

liaven Beach has come over night, and come to stay; a really 
wonderful development on the Gulf of Mexico; well planned, at- 
tractively laid out, highly restricted, with fine streets, beautiful 
bungalows, good water, fine sewerage system and lighted by 
electricity. 

Nearer than any other town on theGulf to the_ great Gulf 
stream it possesses a wonderful climate, has fine bathing, the best 
of fishing and all that a new, up-to-date and thoroughly modern 
resort should have. 

Don't, under any circumstances, miss seeing Haven Beach. It 
is destined to become one of the greatest resort town on the 
West Coast of Florida, and that time is not so far distant. 

Haven Beach is bidding for the man with a boat, and with that 
end in view, is offering one of the best protected harbors on the 
Gulf Coast. 



f MANATEE ] 

^^u. 'HE Land of the Manatee has liecn known as a land of 
1 ) plenty even back to the days of early Indian times, and 
songs have been sung about it since the peaceful Indian 
agriculturist had to defend it against his warring Indian enemy 
who coveted its wealth of fertile soil and the abundance of its 
crops. 

Here Florida soil has outdone itself in richness and productive 
value. 

No place in Florida produces in greater abundance. It is a 
trucker's delight. Hundreds of car loads of early urfits and vege- 
tables go annually to Northern markets, and visitors marvel at the 
tales of the large sums of money received per season from even 
small acreage. Successful tillers of the siol reap bountiful har- 
vests, and at times receive fabulous prices for" their early produce. 
Acres of lettuce have produced a thousand dollars, and tomatoes 
have yielded seven hundred. Farmers have been known to get 
$1,500 from an acre of onions. These hgures, however, are far 
above the average, and the seeker after wealth who is uninitiated 
in the manner of tilling Florida soil does not always succeed the 
first year. 

■ Hundreds have learned the trick, however, and Manatee lands 
possess the rigth qualities for success, if success can be achieved 
anywhere. 

It can be truthfully said, however, that "The Land of the Man- 
atee" ships more small truck than any other section in all Florida 
and its worth a visitors while to go there and see these truckers 
at work in their field. It will give the fellow from the North, 
who raises truck in a small way a new idea of how things are 
done in the "trucking game." 

The town of Manatee is a prosperous one. Nestled along the 
Iianks of the famous Manatee River, it affords a view of wonderful 
aquatic beauty. The town possesses all the up-to-date municipal 
advantages. Good water, good streets, electric lights, sewers, 
good schools, churches, and presents a genial atmosphere of thrift 
and prosperity that impresses the stranger on his first visit. 

The visitor to the West Coast of Florida will do well to look 
this prosperous place over. It's worth a visit. 






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EROM the time that thrifty Indian tribes pitched their camps 
on the banks of the beautiful Manatee River, raised their 
Indian corn and accumulated a wealth of wondrous wam- 
pum through its culture; from the t me they hunted game in the 
big timber miles beyond or fished in the river's crystal depths; 
from the time that early settlers heard of this wonderful fertile 
country and bought it from the red men in exchange for lire water 
or a few wothless trinkets; along down through the ages of com- 
mercial bickerings and accumulation of latter day wealth; 

THE WONDERFUL LAND OF THE MANATEE 

has been known all over Florida as the most fertile, one of the 
most abundantly productive, and a little nearer agriculturally per- 
fect, from a truckers standpoint, than any other part of the State, 
if not in the whole United States. 

These are not idle statements, no wild rantlngs of an inventive 
pen, no silly exagerations to boost this already well-known section. 

Whoever knows the truck raising game in Florida knows of 
the Manatee section, and knows what can be done there and is 
being done there every with these wonderful truck gardens, these : 
small acreages that to the big farmer up North, looks like little 
patches. A ten acre truck farm will keep this big Northern farm- 
er busy down here and its a safe bet that it will net him about as- 
much money as his big farm up home. 

Some of the remarkable facts that are told of what is accom- 
plished here in Manatee County sounds like Aladin Tales to the 
man who is not acquainted with Florida trucking, and Manatee 
truck farming in particular. The writer talked to a successful 
trucker of Manatee soil in December. He told me that two years 
ago he bought a truck farm in a high state of cultivation. It con-' 
tained ten acres and cost him $750.00 an acre. This investment of j 
$7,500, the first ' 

year Ipaid all his - | 

living expenses 
and netted him a 
trifle over $10,000 
profit. This man 
also made the 
statement that if 
any successful 
trucker had pur- 
chased any piece 
of land offered in 
this section last 
year at the price 
asked for it, that he 
was satisfied that 

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been paid for in the tirst years crop. This man was a successful 
truck farmer who knew the game and knew what he was talkin.i; 
about. Last \car was a h'g year in the truck yame, somewhat 
above the. averaL';e year, but not a Ininipcr year bj' any means. 

There ■ are hundreds of truck farmers who are anTassin;v for- 
tunes ofT of these garden spots in Manatee County and other sec- 
t.ons in Florida. That's the reason for this land bringing from 
$500 to $1,000 an acre. But what is the difference what it is 
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an acre if you pay 
for iyour land in 
one years' crop or 
even i f you pay 
for it in two years 
or even three. Can 
you do that up in 
Michigan or 
Maine? Can you 
buy corn land in 
IlLnois and pay 
for it in a couple 
of years from the 
crops you raise? 

A truck farmer 
M^ithin three miles 
o f Bradentown 
was paid a little over $7,000 for his crop of celery last year that 
he grew on two acres. That sounds pretty good to the farmer up 
in New York state who had a banner crop of potatoes last sum- 
mer. What if he did get three hundred bushels to the acre, and 
received $2.00 a bushel for his crop. That was about the best he 
ever did, but the amount was a good deal under $3,500 per acre. 

Another leading trucker on one and two-thirds acres grew two 
crops of celery during one season. The first crop was planted in 
the field about September 15th, and harvested the latter part of 
January, producing 1,130 crates, the gross sales amounting to 
$3,103.14. The second crop was planted immediately after the 
first and harvested in May, producing 1,049 crates, gross sales of 
which was $2,026.11, making a gross for the season of $5,128.25. 
The gross expense of the two crops was $1,820.00, leaving a net 
balance of $3,820.25 for the one and two-thirds acres. 

These are only a few figures, but it would be an easy task to 
compile many more. Th§y are merely a few statements as to the 
agricu 1 1 u r a 1 

p o s s i b ilities i — ■■ :, -— i 

in the land of ! 
the Manatee of 
which Braden- 
town is the 
county s e ja t 
and familiarly 
known as the 
"Capital of the 
Land of the 
Manatee." 

Bradentown 
is a beautiful 
little town of 
about 4,000 in- 
habitants. It 
i s stretched 
out along the 
banks of one EraJeotown Baytist Chwrch 




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TWELVE YEARS BUSINESS AT THE SAME 
STAND AND JUST STARTED 

We know every nook and corner of Manatee County and 
the the value of its lands of every character. We buy close 
for our clients and can secure anything in the real estate market 
at best prices and terms. 

"We handle Timber Lands, Pasture Lands, Farms, Groves, 
W^ater Fronts, City and Suburban Properties. 

INFORMATION 

We furnish free information on any subject pertaining to this section. 

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of the most beautiful rivers in this part of the state. Up to this 
point the Manatee is really a big inland bay extending from 
Tampa Bay and is a mile wide at this place. The town sets on a 
natural elevation. As you approach it on the river you see a city 
nestled among the trees, whose prosperous looking residences and 
imposing business buildings mipress you favorably before you land. 
Its shaded streets, beautiful lawns and general appearance of 
thrift and cleanliness strike you at a glance. The wide business 
streets, beautiful court house square and the imposing county 
structure, its beautiful churches, and other public buildings stamp 
it as a city where civic pride is in evidence. Everywhere is order 
and restfulness and you feel an atmosphere of thrift and prosper- 
ity unknown in the world of wild hustle and bustle, where you have 
been 'battling along with others over commercial strife. The cit- 
izens of Bradentown do things quiCtly and regularly, but they do 
them well and you like the town of Bradentown and the people of 
Bradentown as soon as you arrive and you like this order of things 
the longer you stay in Bradentown. 

Bradentown is 46 miles from Tampa on the Seaboard Air Line 
Railroad. It is also on the East and West Coast Railway (of the 
Sea'board) conecting with the Atlantic Coast Line and Charlotte 
Harbor and Northern Railway at Arcadia; and is also on Tampa 
Southern division of the Atlantic Coast Line to Tampa, which lat- 
ter has just been completed. 

Bradentown has everything a town of its size should have in 
the way of public improvements. It has electric lights, artesian 
water, public library, complete sewerage system, excellent schools, 
two banks numerous churches, a municipal building, fire protec- 
tion, sixteen miles of paved streets, and thirty-two miles of paved 
side walks. 

The good pav- 
ed roads running- 
out of Braden- 
town i n every 
direction are a 
joy to the heart 
of the motoring 
tourist. There 
are over $250,000 
worth of hard 
surfaced roads in 
this county o f 
which Braden- 
town is the cen- 
ter and a recent 
bond issue o f 
$1,100,000 is pro- 
viding for many 
more as rapidly 
as they can be 
completeld. The 
new Bay Shore 
Drive across the 
municipal bridge, 
through Palmet- Prospect Avenue 




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to has just been completed 
by the county, to Tampa, 
and the other route by way 
of Parrish, to Tampa, is 
now under construction by 
the State, and will be com- 
pleted early in the year. 

Bradentown is right on 
the Tamiami Trail, and on 
the Paradise Loop, which 
are the officially designat- 
e d connections o f the 
Dixie Highway. Hard 
roads connect Bradentown 
with ever}' other town in 
the county. 

Bradentown is a city of 
homes. You marvel at its 
many beautiful rows of 
substantial residences and 
well kept lawns. It is 
doubtful if you find a town 
with more sub-tropical fol- 
iage this side of Fort 
Myers. The many beauti- 
ful drives going out o f 
Bradentown are a marvel to the tourist. You motor along over 
level stretches, lined with beautiful trees, while here and there you 
catch glimpses through beautiful vistas of the wonderful river at 
your feet; or look across its mirrored depths to dense forests 
beyond. Sandy beaches reach out below you, where rippling 
wavelets wash across them from the wake of some pleasure craft 
sailing along under a cloudless Florida sky. The scene beggars 
description. Its beauty, is all the beauty of the Land of the Man- 
atee known only to those who have come there and enjoyed it all. 
Across the river is the city of Palmetto, with 2,000 people. 




A Field of Early Tomatoes 




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Recently the two town were connected by a joint municipal bridge, 
a little farther up on the Bradentown side is the city of Manatee, 
also connected l^y a bridge with EUenton. The drive across the 
new twin Municipal Bridge, back through the fertile truck farms 
of the Palmetto and Parrish section of Manatee county, through 
Ellenton and across the upper bridge and back through the city 
of Manatee to Bradentown again, is a ride lilled with wonderful 
sights to a lover of the agricultural. He sees here things he has 
never seen in his life before. 

Did you ever see ninetj^ miles of grapefruit trees under one 
enclosure? Did you ever see twenty acres of lettuce or ten acres 
of tomatoes in one patch? Have you ever seen orange groves 
bearing lusc.ous Manatee County oranges all ready for the har- 
vest, whose fruit look like so many 'oalls of gold? Take this ride 
some time and see all these things and be convinced that the Land 
of the Manatee is one of Florida's garden spots. 

Take other rides out of Bradentown. Go to the shores of the 
Gulf of Mexico, only nine miles west, vis t Cortez, the wonderful 
little fishing village, where you see more fishing commercially than 
in any place for m les up and down the Gulf. In a short time 
you can drive all the way to Anna Maria Key for the county has 
bonded for a hard road and bridge over from the main land which 
is to be strated right away and which w 11 give Bradentown an 
excellent bathing beach on the Gulf of Mexico. Visit Braden 
Castle, on a beautiful bluff overlooking Braden River that flows 
into the Manatee at Bradentown. Here was the scene of much 
local exc tement bordering on tragedy during the Indian uprising- 
in the last century. Vis t the Royal Palm Nurseries, one of the- 
largest in the state. See the Gamble residence, the landing place 
of Judah P. Benjamin after the civil war. Take in the famous 
Atwood grapefruit groves, the largest in the world. See Palma 
Sola, Terra Ceia Bay, and Sarasota Bay. Fish at Anna Maria^ 




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Cortez Beach or on the Manatee River. Take a hunting trip to 
Mialka and shoot quail and wild turkey. 

Take a sad 'boat and go up the river, up where it is a 'river, 
and follow its wind'ngs; past palm lined shores where an occa- 
sional water oak or lofty palmetto stand out like giant sentinels 
keeping watch over eveij'thing in sight, seemingly there to give 
warning of your approach, to the myriads of water birds who fly 
away in mild reproach at your coming. See giant alligators 
basking in the sun; see things you have never seen before in this 
wild tangle of sub-tropical lovliness, or if you are a hsherman 
and love to try conclusions with the fmny dennisons of the deep; 
go fishing. To the fishermen down here; if you have in after 
life acquired the habit of so n¥,any others of your fellow-man, 
go fishing in the waters around Bradentown. At no place on the 
West Coast of Florida is thei*e better fishing than in the waters of 
the rivers, bays and Gulf, along the Manatee Coast. Tarpon, king- 




A Morning's Cati-h of King: Fish 

fish, mackerel, red fish, grouper, and in fact all kinds of fish known 
to Florida waters, are here ready to be caught. Millions of pounds 
are being si'-pped away from here annually by net fishermen and 
many are the sport fishermen who are found here every winter 
with rod and reel to enjoy their favorite pastime. Or if you are 
not so ventursome and enjoy other kinds of sport, they are here 
at every turn. 

Bradentown has expended $20,000 on one of the best nine-hole 
golf courses on the West Coast. The course takes in a tract of 
over seventy acres and is only ten minutes walk from the court- 
house. It is conducted as The Bradentown Golf and Country 
Club and a professional is in charge. 

The city maintains public roque courts in the Municipal Park 
around the Cily Hall, where tourists enjoy many social pleasures. 



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A Bradenfown Home 



Bradentown 'has 
a number of good 
hotels for the ac- 
commiTLodation o f 
visitors and num- 
e r o u s furnished 
apartment and room 
i n g houses which 
materially increase 
the number of guests 
that can be cared for 
during the winter 
season. A movie 
theatre, other places 
of amusement, to- 
gether with the var- 
ious regular social 
functions, afforded 
by the different ho- 
tels offer the winter visitor a number of diversions. 

Bradentown's tax assessment this year was $4,600,00. It is an 
economically governed city, whose tax rate compares favorably 
with other towns its size. It is a good place to spend a winter or 
a good place to live the remainder of your life. Bradentown peo- 
ple, unlike those in some towns, are glad to welcome strangers, par- 
ticularly if you are a progressive stranger and want to come here 
and live and prosper. They dont want any drones in this little 
hive of thrift and prosperity, and so they are apt to look you over 
and size up your possibilities before they fall on your neck and 
take you into their innermost circles. But if you come here and 
behave yourself and show a disposition to become a good citizen 
you will find them offering you the glad hand of welcome and fol- 
lowing it up with all the help in their power to aid you in em- 
phasizing your own success in their little community. 

Bradentown needs new progressive citizens. Men with brains 
and money, who will help to do big things for the town. It needs 
more houses, more hotels 
and more apartment houses. 
Of course it needs new in- 
dustries , and its live Board 
©f Trade is always ready to 
assist in bringing them into 
the town. The town already 
has a broom factory, a pal- 
metto brush works, a grape 
fruit juice factory, a cigar 
factory and a pottery. 

Bradentown's geograph- 
ical situation has made her 
success possible. Surround- 
ed by Manatee truck farms, 
and being right in the cen- 
ter of one of the most pro- 
ductive citrus raising sec- 
tions in the state, her future Bradeis-itmwia Bniif>-ali> 




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of Florida for You 

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REALTY and INVESTMENT COMPANY 

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is absolutely assured. A casual glance will easily convince the 
stranger of this fact. Come here and see these wonderful groves 
of grapefruit and oranges. Here grapefruit reaches perfection. 
Not only is the soil perfectly adapted to its growth, but the climat- 
ic conditions materially aid. Besides having the Gulf of Mexico 
on West, the waters of Tampa Bay reach for miles along the 
Northwestern portion of the county, giving protection from freezes 
and ruinous frosts. The famous Atwood grapefruit groves of 
ninety miles of trees and the Manatee Fruit Company's orange 
grove, nearly twice that size, are both located here. 

The Manatee section last year produced over 7,000 cars of veg- 
etables, bringing into the county 'between $5,000,000 and $6,000,- 
000. Pifty tfiousand carloads of fruit and vegetables were shipped 
out of Florida last year, of which one seventh came from Manatee 
County. During one week $50,000 worth was shipped from the 
county. Many truck farms grow 600 to 1,000 crates of celery a 
season, often bringing $3.00 to $5.00 a crate. It is not uncommon 
for a farmer to realize $1,000 an acre, with rotation crops of to- 
matoes, lettuce, eggplant and celery. The record crop for an acre 
of truck land in Manatee County is $5,100. In one day $63,009 
was deposited in one bank as revenue from tomatoes alone. 

These are not overdrawn figures. They are figures carefully 
compiled and substantiated, not by unresponsible and unposted in- 
dividuals, but as facts given out by men of standing and officers of 
truck growing associations. 

If so the question the Northern agriculturist asks himself, can I 
do all this? Why not? If you are a successful agriculturist where 
you came from, why not do what others are doing here in the 
Bradentown section. You will say: is not $750 to $1,000 an arce 
pretty high for truck farms. $1,000 an acre would be pretty high 
for your farm where you have 200 acres to farm. But here you 
only need 10 to 15 acres to be a big fellow and you will find that 
your net profits from this "little patch" will be as large as frora 
your 200 acres. Of course you want to analyze yourself before 
you try Florida trucking. Its hard work this trucking game, but 
its worth while — very much so. 




One of Bradeuto^vn\<3 SIioTi' Places 



1 SAFETY HARBOR 1 

■^^ tf'UST four hundred and sixty years ago a gallant armada of 
O I queer looking Spanish vessels, with banners flying and sails 
\^.^ spread to the gentle breezes of a Southern clime, entered 
the waters of Old Tampa Bay. 

The brave commander and his faithful followers stood upon the 
decks of their vessels and were astounded at the wonderful scene 
which spread itself before them. Entering one of the most 'beau- 
tiful sheets of water they had ever beheld, whose shore line was 
fringed with a profusion of tangled loveliness, dotted here and 
there with immense water oaks, they came to anchor near a little 
inland 'bay, skirted about with wonderful trees that must have 
been centuries old. 

Gallant Hernando DeSoto and his company of courtiers, sol- 
diers and gentlemen of Spain, accompanied by a band of devout 
priests, landed and planted their many colored banners on a sandy 
shore and dropping to their knees held a solemn religious cere- 
mony in commemoration of their voyage. 

Looking out across the wide expanse of water the white sails 
of their ships appeared like great birds sitting upon the waves, 
land even as the Holy Spirit 'had once ascended in. the form of a 
white dove, so they likened these sails to symbols of the Holy 
Spirit, which had brought them safely from the mother land to 
this wonderful wilderness whose future held so much for them. 

They irpmediately arranged a great feast which they called in 




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Spanish, Espiritu Santo, which being- translated means, Feast of 
the Holy Spirit. And then began a march of discovery that 
opened up new and wonderful things at every turn. Imagine this 
band of explorers camped under moss covered water oaks, eating 
their first meal on the shores of the New World. Dreaming of 
the strange stories they had heard of Ponce de Leon and his ex- 
periences on the East Coast only a few years before; of the stories 
of the Fountain of Perpetual Youth, that he had brought back but 
had not found, and then some, more adventurous than others who 
had been exploring the shore line, Inirst back into the company 
with the news that they had found this wonderful Fountain, boil- 
ing up its life giving waters out of the waters of the bay itself. 

Espiritu Santo Springs, unceasingly, day and night, for all 
these years, has poured up their crystal waters — millions and mil- 
lions of gallons of it. If it was the Fountain of Youth that the 
Indians had talked about to Ponce de Leon's followers, no twen- 
tieth century resident of Safety Habror will never know. But its 
magical waters have 'been a boon to many sufferers through all 
these years and many are the sick that come here to be treated. 
There are five springs in all in an area of less than a quarter of an 
acre. The natural flow is about 100,000 gallons a day. 

People come from many places to drink these waters and to 
take the mineral baths. Here is located the Espiritu Santo Baths. 
It has a large swimming pool and many private bath rooms. A 
peculiar thing about these various springs is that each of them is 
distinctive in itself and each has a different analysis. One is al- 
most identical with the celebrated Wortheim and Kissengen Min- 
eral Springs of Germany, while the analysis of another is- almost 




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Safety Harbor City Hall 

the same as the Hot Springs of Arkansas. These wonderful 
springs only need the proper development to become one of the 
leading mineral springs in the world. In fact, all of them are 
radio active to a marked degree. 

Around these wonderful springs has sprung up the little city of 
Safety Harbor, built on the edge of a pretty little bay, which is 
one of the most beautiful spots on the West Coast. Its climate 
is delightful the year round. Sheltered by forest land and setting 
on a natural elevation, facing the waters of Old Tampa Bay, with 
hundreds of fine trees to temper the gentle zephyrs of the Gulf 
with their health giving powers, it offers warm weather in winter 
and cool breezes in the summer. As many people come here in 
the summer to enjoy its cool breezes as come in the winter to en- 
joy its delightful winter cliniate. There is no malaria and very 
few mosquitoes, as there are no low swampy spots in the whole 
country about. 

Moonlight on the waters of Old Tampa Bay is a scene worth 
coming many miles to see, and the sun coming up from its limpid 
depths never fails to stir the ipulse of the visitor. 

The town recently voted a $20,000 bond issue to extend a mun- 
icipal pier beyond the present sea wall. This will extend out 1000 
feet from the shore road and leave a pier head 50x100 feet. When 
completed it is expected that a new boat line will be established 
from Port Tampa by way of Oldsmar -and Safety Harbor to St. 
Petersburg. 

The present fill-in of the Spring Coniipany covers 15 acres and 
has a concrete sea wall . It is the present plan to change this 
sea wall, curving it inland to establish a land-locked yacht basin. 



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There is some of the best fishing in Florida right here in Old 
Tampa Bay near Safety Harbor, along with the best fishing all 
over Tampa Bay that is to be found in Florida, the Old Tampa 
Bay branch is not fished so much and consequently is the best 
fishing grounds. 

Here is to be found channel bass, mackerel, tarpon, snapper, 
trout, grouper and all the other salt water fish known to Florida 
waters. The lover of the sport finds here a fishing paradise, that 
if he is not already acquainted with its varied angles, will be as- 
tounded at the great numbers of fish that are here waiting his 
poweress as an angler. Some of the stories that are told of the 
fishing here astonish even dyed-in-he-wool Florida fishermen. A 
trip here for the fishing alone is well worth a journey to Safety 
Harbor. Try it if you are a fisherman. 

With its natural position on the shore of Old Tampa Bay, 
Safety Harbor is bound to become a thriving town. It is on the 
main brick paved highway only 2:\ miles from Tampa in one direc- 
tion and but 2;^ miles from St. Petersburg in the other. Clear- 
Water seven miles away and Tarpon Springs 15 miles. The Belle- 
view Hotel at Bellaire is only 8 miles distant. With the opening 
up of this pier and the establishment of a boat line and its present 
rail road connection, the town is destined to become better known 
in the very near future. The town is on the Tampa and Gulf 
Coast division of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. 

Safety Harbor already has a very good hotel and several 







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boarding houses. What it needs most right now is new hotels and 
the introduction of a few industries. 

The country about Safety Harbor is right in the Pinellas citrus 
section and there are some very fine groves near the town. There 
are great opportunities here for citrus culture and poultry raising. 
Several local people have gone into the latter on a large scale and 
are making it pay. 

Citrus raising on the Pinellas Peninsular is so well known to 
everyone interested in the subject in Florida that there is no need 
to go into it here. No section of the whole state raises- better 
or larger citrus crops, and to say that the Safety Harbor section 
borders on the best Pinellas orange groves, explains why there 
is every opportunity in the world for the orange or grapefruit 
grower to find here a suitable place for Ihis operations. There is 
a lot of suitable land in this neigliborhood that is available for 
new groves and to the stranger who is interested in orange or 
grapefruit culture, here would be a good place to make investi- 
gations. 

The soft balmy breezes from the gulf, coming in over old 
Tampa Bay insures protection against frosts that some times 
visits other sections. Its proximity to the great pine forests 
also afford a protection to young trees. It is an acknowledged 
fact that frosts are almost unknown in this locality. 

The town has a new school, a city hall and possesses a com- 
mission form of government. Safety Harbor is one of the towns 
in Florida that is waiting to be developed into something worth 



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while. There is every reason to believe that it will be a town 
many times its present size in the very near future. Men with 
real capital and real push and business ability will find here won- 
derful opportunities for development. 

Its natural advantages , its good roads, its water location and 
its nearness to surrounding big towns are all in its favor for rapid 
development when the right kind of outside capital comes in and 
develops it. 

If the right parties discovered Safety Harbor, developed its 
springs and let the world know all about their curative properties, 
the town could be made into the greatest mineral water resort in 
the country. There is something awaiting the pioneer investor 
who would do well to come here and make a personal investi- 
gation. No place of the kind in the whole country can boast of 
such natural scenic surroundings. 



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GORE HAVEN, the wonder city of the Everglades, the 
newest, most wonderful place in all Florida, and, if you 
believe the natives, the most wonderful place anywhere in 
creation, has sprung up almost over night, like some big mush- 
room. 

Four years ago, Moore Haven was a wild tangle of marshland 
and saw grass, inhabited only by wild fowl and wild beast, too. 
Today this wilderness has been reclaimed and in its place a town — 
a town which grows bigger every week, and is rapidly approach- 
ing the title of a young city. 

About this town for miles around is spread out some of the 
most wonderful farming lands in the whole world, where agricul- 
tural possibilities are unlimited. 

All this miracle was brought about by a very simple proceeding. 

The idea of a giant canal, to drain this vast watery waste and 
connect the waters of the mighty Lake Okeechobee with the 
Calooshatchee River, and so empty its waters into the Gulf of 
Mexico, was planned and completed in a short year and a half. 
Drainage ditches emptied into this canal, and when the scheme 
was completed and the land completely dried out, it was found 
that Moore Haven muck soil to a depth of over seven feet was 
not only a possibility for rais- 
ing wonderful farm crops, but 
an actual possibility. 

Today the country round 
about Moore Haven is thickly 
settled with hustling agricul- 
turists who are doing great 
things — things they never 
thought could be done. 

One don't find seven feet of 
rich muck soil in many places 
in the world. You read about 
such things in the valley of the 
Nile, but why go to Africa 
when you can go to Moore Ha- 
ven? And then the Nile over- 
flows its banks once a year. 
There are no floods in Moore 
Haven. The canal never over- 
flows its 'banks, and if the wa- 
ter ever thought of rising any- 
where near the top of its banks 
— presto, up goes the gates of 
the locks and down goes the 
water, just the same as when 
the evening boat conies through 
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then Moore Haven itself is filled with some hustlers, too. 

The railroad is there now, and its coming is bringing an added 
boom. Even the railroad is not contented to sit down and be sat- 
isfied. It's reaching out further south, and before another year it 
will go on many miles further. 

Boats come in through the canal regularly from Palm Beach, 
across Lake Okeechobee, and with the same regularity the visitor 
can come in from the West Coast through the other end of the 
canal and up the Caloosahatchee from Fort Myers. 

Both these trips are a wonder to the tourist every inch of the 
way, and traverses the whole width of the State. The journey 
across the Everglades is one that every stranger to Florida should 
include in his itinerary, and a stop-off should be made at Moore 
Haven. 

Of course, he has heard of Moore Haven before he left his 
'home up North. Not a paper in the land but what has been pub- 
lishing stories about Moore Haven, but he becomes more and 
more interested as he learns farthe of w'hat others have done 
here. These great things cause his pulses to beat faster, and 
when he realizes that these wonderful things have only started — 
he is a good candidate for membership in the innermost circles. 

There are no black balls on Moore Haven, and if he looks half 
way like a hustler, and has the kale in his clothes, he is likely to 
join the great majority and start hustling for himself. 

The first step in increasing the population of Moore Haven is 
in getting the stranger to go there. The rest is easy. 

When the Palm Beach boat approaches some one is sure to say, 
"Here comes some more citizens." 

They grow everything about Moore Haven that's worth rais- 
ing. Potatoes, tomatoes, celery, lettuce, beans, cabbage, peanuts, 
and other truck. Corn, alfalfa, sugar cane, and all the forage 
crops. Speaking of sugar cane, Moore Haven took the grand 
prize at the Inter-Soil Products Exposition in Kansas City for 
raising the largest and finest in the whole United States. And 
speaking of prizes, s'he walked away with 140 ribbons and two sil- 
ver cups at this same national exposition. That's going some. 
She repeated this performance at the Jacksonville Fair in Decem- 
ber by taking a big share of the ribbons that were worth taking, 
and her exhibition was the marvel of the show. 

Trucking goes on 'here the whole year round like some mighty 
marathon that has no end. Crops come and crops go, and there 
always seems to be another crop ready to plant. This has been 
going on ever since Moore Haven started. 

Some farmers are getting rich in Moore Haven. Some have 
lost money, and a few have quit. That's the way the world over. 
Even Moore Haven muck soil, with Moore Haven's wonderful 
opportunities for the agriculturist, cannot perform miracles. 

This is a wonderful, but not a miracleland, and it -means hard 
work here just the same as it does at home. But, gee, how things 
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Harvestiii};' s» C'roi) of Feannts 

soil and under this Florida sun is a caution. It makes you rub 
your eyes in the morning to see what has happened while you 
have been asleep. 

You see, there are five farms in Moore Haven that total nearly 
3,500 acres. That's an average of 700 acres to a farm, and the 
largest of all has 2,500, and that is managed by a woman. 

But there are other kinds of farmers in Moore Haven. The lit- 
tle fellow with the small tract, many of them with as small a plot 
as ten to fifteen acres. But that four or five crop rotation makes 
his ten acres as large as his brother's up North with forty acres. 

Some are going into the business of raising hogs, and good 
hogs at the present good prices of pork is a business that's mak- 
ing money. 

You don't see any better Durocs anywhere than on some of 
these Moore Haven hog farms. 

But the real center of everything in Moore Haven is Moore 
Haven. That sounds rather peculiar, but its true, x^-ll these won- 
der farms are around the town itself, and all help to make it grow 
and prosper. 

From the one lone cypress which once stood on the bank of 
the swamp which is now Moore Haven to every blade of grass 
in every well-kept lawn in the town, everything looks prosperous. 

The old cypress is in the center of the city now and a good 
ways away from any kind of water, but it holds the proud dis- 
tinction of being the only real tree in the place. Dozens of other 
trees 'have been planted, but even as rapidly as things grow in 
Moore Haven it will be some time before the old cypress will have 
very serious competition. Everything else in the town has com- 
petition, however, for just as soon as anything gets going nicely, 
the town demands more, and other enterprises come in. 

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A Moore Haven Farmer Feeslii 



of Moore Ha- 
ven's needs for 

many years to 

corne, an ice 

plant, a huge 

$15,0 c a n- 

ning plant, a 

water system, 

c h u r c h e 91; 

schools, and 

all that goes 

to make up a 

pro s p e r o u s 

town, is right 

here in Moore 

Haven. Every- 
thing is boom- 
ing every day 

i n the year, 

and a wonderful future is assured for tihis wonder city. 

Moore Haven's business section can fill your every need. In 
addition to your farm or your town home, you can have your 
every wish filled in the large stores and supply houses of the city 
of Moore Haven. Farming implements, did you say? Yes, you 
can outfit your new farm from hand implements to the largest 
power machines needed on the largest farm. And if it is lum- 
ber, bu'.lding materials, hardware of any description you need, go 
there and get it. Why pay freight and wait for cars to arrive 
when you can coime here with just your personal baggage and 
your bank account and outfit your farim or your home immedi- 
ately upon your arrival? If you are going to become a citizen 
of this wonderful community, a farmer of this remarkable soil, 
you will certainly ihave to take your place in its progressive body 
politic. Every Moore Havenite- is a booster for the Moore Haven 
section. They buy here, they sell here. Their money is depos- 
ited in the local bank. They patronize home industries. Can you 

as a newcom- 




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have the ben- 
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ers and mer- 
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Moore Haven is a caution to one who don't do things in a big 
way, agriculturally. One acres in tomatoes and a patch of cab- 
bage 90 acres in size are mere bagatelles. Irish potatoes grown 
in 200 acre thacts down here; and peanuts — well, the man from up 
North who buys his regular pint bag on a Saturday night, or gets 
h s short measure nickel's worth at the big show, along with the 
red lemonade and such like,, can see more peanuts in a minute 
than be thought ever grew in a lifetime. Imagine seeing a fifty 
acre peanut patch. Well, that's the way they grow them in 
Moore Haven. They tear things up proper here when they com- 
mence to get the ground ready for planting. 

Of course there are horses, lots of them, but the real big work 
is done by giant tractors that's first cousins to the army tank in 
hugeness and power. These big, heavy, steam-driven tractors start 
the work going and gets this wonder land in shape for real truck- 
ing. 

Where it will stop and just what the end will be, is hard to 
guess. There seems to be no end to it, and the fine thing about 
it all is that most of these crops that are grown here in Moore 
Haven are grown just a little before and harvested a little before 
the same kind of a crop anywhere else. 

Moore Haven has just finished paving its town and if you were 
there a year ago you would not recognize it today. Things hum 
in Moore Haven and if you want to see a live place by all means 
visit this wonder land of achievement. 




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I Come to Moore Haven I 
i I 

^p A favored district on the south side of Lake Okeechobee; N9 

^^ its rich black vital soil, glorious climate, good water, and ^5 

^g unexcelled healthfulness are now attracting many shrewd sB 

SS investors, farmers, stock-raisers and home seekers. W| 

§ Come and See ^ 

^Sl The farm crops growing here without fertilizer — corn, 

cotton, tobacco, peanuts, potatoes, s\yeet potatoes, sugar 

cane, melons, tomatoes, cabbage, onions, celery, beans, 

cukes, lettuce, peppers, egg-plants, okra, alfalfa, rhodes 

grass, Sudan grass. Natal grass, millets, sorghum, 

rice and castor beans. 



The price of commercial fertilizer is rapidly advancing. 
You can buy an acre of this rich black muck land, where 
large crops are grown without the use of commercial 
fertilizer, almost as cheap as one ton of fertilizer. Your 
ton of fertilizer is gone in one season; your acre of rich 
black land lasts a life-time. 



^ MORAL: ^ 

^ Buy Moore Haven Land Instead of ^ 

^ Buying Fertilizer ^ 

An Investment in Moore Haven Land is Safe, 
Sure and Profitable 

Buy your improved and unimproved land and city lots at 

S^ first price and on easy terms from the South Florida ^9 

^g Farms Company, the original owners of the town-site ^S 

^S of Moore Haven and all the lands in the Moore 6^ 

SS Haven district. SS| 

rm Train service on the A. C. L. Railroad and regular boat V^ 

|Ka service from West Palm Beach and from Fort Myers. ^S^ 

& FOR DETAILED INFORMATION WRITE TO « 

I South Florida Farms Co. | 

^ H. G. GATES, Sales Manager MOORE HAVEN, FLA. S 




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An Opportunity for You ! 



Florida spends about ten million dollars 
annually for hay grown in Northern States. 

We are developing 5,760 acres of choice 
land and growing hay for this profitable 
home market. 

The land is cleared and stumped, and all 
farm operations, including plowing, seed- 
ing, harvesting and marketing the crops, 
are done by the Association. 

The first 1,440-acre unit is now fully 
developed and producing hay. This year 
$11,660 in dividend coupons was distributed 
among owners of farms in this unit. 

The second 1,440-acre unit, now being 
developed, is open to investors. Booklet 
giving full information will be mailed free 
to interested persons . Write today for copy. 



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ASSOCIATION 

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'y^h-->0 THE Northern farmer who has looked over the many 
M ^ different agricultural districts in Florida, and found most 
^^^y of them raising a great many things with which he is 
not familiar, it is very much worth his while to go up into Her- 
nando County and stop for a few days at Brooksville, its county 
seat. Here he will find a pretty little town of a'bout 800 people, 
built on a hill from which he can look out over many miles of 
surounding country. These views from hill tops are pretty scarce 
in Florida where most of the State is composed of low level 
land. Here it is different. Brooksville is in the hilly part of the 
center of the State. 

Here the Northern agriculturist will be more at home. He 
will see corn fields like his corn fields back North. He will see 
other crops like he raises at home. He will see farmers raising 
cattle and poultry and all general crops. He will also find others 
raising cotton and other Southern crops. General farming is the 
thing here and some of the Hernando County farmers are models, 
even to the Northern visitor. 

In Brooksville he will find a pretty little county seat with good 
stores, good schools and very good roads. He will find a sociable 
people who will gladly welcome him to their midst. 




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If he is interested in forage crops he may be astonished at a 
visit to one big tract in the neighborhood. Imagine a hay field 
of 5,000 acres, three miles square, with no intervening fences, with 
no trees and nothing to hide the view of this immense field of 
waving hay. 

This huge hay field is worth seeing and if the visitor is in the 
neighborhood of Brooksville, its worth a visit. Last year Florida 
imported a half million tons of hay from other states and has 
been doing it for many years. For a long time it was thought that 
hay could not be successfully raised in the state, and millions of 
dollars have been paid out for the imported article and millions 
more for the freight to bring it here. 

And then some wise people started something. A huge tract 
of 5,760 acres of land, six miles west of Brooksville was purchased 
and planted in Natal grass for hay. 

The Florida Natal Hay Association have convinced themselves 
of the great need of producing in Florida the greater portion of 
the hay required in the State, and this huge farm is working on 
a cooperative basis which has been highly successful in the past. 

Its worth a visit here during harvest season to see the way they 
handle this huge crop and to note the improved agricultural im- 
plements used to gather it. The first crop of hay is harvested in 
May, a second crop is cut in August and they cut the third crop 
in November. This seems like a fairy tale to the Northern farm- 
er who only gets one good crop from his grass or perhaps a 
second cutting. 

Go to Brooksville, see this successful agricultural section. 
If you are interested in farming you will see something different 
perhaps than you have seen anywhere else in the State. 




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[j WINTER HAVEN [ 



^w^ INTER HAVEN is the center of the world's richest citrus 
ill fruit section, and likewise the center of the famous lake 
\M^ region of Polk County. 

Fifty miles to the east of Tampa, the great Gulf port; a hun- 
dred and ninety-six miles to the north is Jacksonville, the "Gate- 
way of Florida." Twelve miles to the south is Bartow, the county 
seat, from which railroads reach Punta Gorda and Fort Myers, on 
the lower Gulf Coast. The Atlantic Coast Line gives Winter 
Haven convenient access to the great cities of the North. 

Unlike many cities of Southern Florida, Winter Haven is not a 
mere winter resort — it is a substantial town, with an energetic 
year-round population, greatly mcreased during the winter months 
by tourists, home-seekers, and hundreds of Northerners, who find 
here an ideal climate and unusual social advantages. 

Both in winter and summer Winter Haven has ideal climate 
conditions. In winter the temperature is mild and free from ex- 
tremes. In summer Winter Haven feels none of the discomforts 
of the so-called semi-tropical sun. The summer temperature rare- 
ly exceeds 96 degrees, and winter seldom lower than 32 degrees; 
average June, July and August, 85 degrees; average December, 
January and February, 45 degrees. The rainy seasons check un- 
due warmth, and the nights are delightfully cool. The air always 
is pure , the water is bright, clear and refreshing, and mosquitoes 
seldom are known. 

One reason for Winter Haven' s good fortune is its high alti- 
tude. It is 200 feet above the level of the sea — 160 feet higher 
than the average for the southern section of the State — and this 
alone goes far to explain its superior climatic and natural advan- 
tages. At such an elevation there can be no swamps, no fevers, 





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no malaria, and no great humidity. Winter Haven's high eleva- 
tion is due to a ridge which aptly has been called the "backbone 
of Florida." 

The lake region of Polk County covers two townships. Within 
five miles of the town are ninety-seven beautiful lakes, of clear, 
sparkling water, pure and sweet. Ideal sites for beautiful homes 
are found on the well-timbered shores rising gently to the high- 
land above. The lakes, all the products of overflowing springs, 
are from 20 to 50 feet in depth, and are full of game fish — excel- 
lent black bass that sportsmen equal to all except the tarpon of 
the nearby Gulf coast. These lakes are so close together that 
nearly every farm or grove can have its water frontage, temper- 
ing the climate in summer and winter and providing perfect drain- 
age and healthful conditions at all times. Many of these lakes are 
connected and afford delightful boating. 

As visitors began to realize the opportunities afforded by the 
lake region, the shores of these lakes are becoming occupied by 
productive farms and groves and comfortable homes. The Win- 
ter Haven section is beginning to be acknowledged far and wide 
as the ideal residence district, and as the most profitable agricul- 
tural section of the State. People from other States rapidly are 
acquiring land, selecting home locations on the shores of the 
lakes, and in this activity lies the assurance that Winter Haven 
will continue to be the civic center and business point for a rapidly 
growing and prosperous community. 

Florida grapefruit and oranges, owing to soil and climatic can- 
ditions are far superior. Florida has ample rainfall and needs no 
irrigation for citrus fruits. Florida has no competitor in the pro- 
duction of grapefruit. 

Because of this supremacy in the culture of citrus fruits, Win- 
ter Haven's prosperity is founded on a stable basis. The finest 
orange groves in the world are in the immediate vicinity of the 
town. More than 12,000 acres here are devoted to citrus culture; 
8,000 acres are supporting bearing trees, and on 4,000 acres more 
stand young trees soon to add their product to the enrichment of 
the grower and the section. Many more acres are being planted, 
and the future of the citrus industry in this particular part of 
Florida never was brighter. The blossoms come in February, and 
the fruit may 'be gathered from October to June, although it is 
not at its 'best until December. An orange grove in bloom, dis- 
tributing its exquisite perfume over a great area, is a delig'ht, and 
the sight of an orange grove in bearing, every tree laden with its 
luscious globes of growing fruit, is one long to be remembered. 

There is a charm attached to the production of oranges and 
grapefruit of which no other industry can boast. Profit is cer- 
tain wherever proper methods are used. No crop requires a 
smaller expenditure of money and labor in proportion to the re- 
turns, and no crop can be relied upon to give a larger annual in- 
come per acre. 

Citrus fruit growers of Winter Haven and vicinity enjoy spe- 
cial advantages in the packing, shipping, and marketing of their 
crops. The grower is able to get his fruit to market at minimum 
co'st through the excellent facilities afforded bv the Florida Citrus 
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for in the six years of its existence it has revolutionized the hand- 
ling and marketing of the product. The Exchange, controlled by 
the growers, treats every grower alike, and returns to him every 
cent his fruit brings in the markets of the North, after deducting 
the legitimate expense. It maintains packing houses throughout 
the State, where the products of all the members are packed uni- 
formly in boxes branded properly. 

GOOD ROADS 

It cannot be denied that good roads add more in every way to 
the general good and prosperity of a community than any other 
one thing All the important streets of Winter Haven are paved 
with sheet asphalt, and in every direction out of Winter Haven 
there are miles and miles of asphalt roads. All told, there are 265 
miles of asphalt paved roads in Polk County. Bonds of Polk 
County for doing this work were readily sold at a premium. No 
more beautiful automobile ride can be taken than one around Win- 
ter Haven's many beautiful lakes and through thousands of acres 
of Winter Haven's citrus groves, and all on asphalt roads. These 
good roads have materially reduced the cost of getting the citrus 
fruit crop to the packing houses. Most of the fruit is transported 
to the packing houses by auto trucks with trailers, which have ten 
times as much fruit as was hauled by the old mule teains formerly 
used. 

A FISHERMAN'S PARADISE. 

If a man coming from a country without lake's took an aero- 
plane trip over Winter Haven he would be astonished at the view 
he beheld. 

Looking down he could plainly see ninety- 
seven wonderful bodies of fresh water, every 
one of them teeming with fresh water fish. 
Truly a sportsman's paradise, and one to set 
the pulses of every fisherman throbbing with 
delight. 

Right here in the middle of Polk County 
is some of the best bass fishing in Florida, if 
not in the whole United States. 

Sportsmen come from all over the country 
to fish in Winter Haven waters, and some 
wonderful tales are related of the remarkable 
catches of fish they take home with them. 

Anglers like the lakes around Winter Ha- 
ven. Their natural beauty appeals to the 
lovers of the great out-of-doors, and your 
fisherman is always a nature lover. The 
tourist who has been doing the sandy sea 
shore places, or admiring the "beauties bf 
some Gulf shore key^ awakens to the realiza- 
tion that here in the Polk County lake region 
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ARTOW, with a population of 5,000 people, is the most cen- 
trally located town in Polk County, of which it is the coun- 
ty seat. At an elevation of 116 feet above sea level, it 
stands at the western edge of a comparatively narrow stretch of 
land known as the "ridge" or "backbone" of the State. 

Bartow is 45 miles east of Tampa, 210 miles south of Jackson- 
ville, and 100 miles north of Fort Myers. 

Bartow is a well governed city. Two hundred and fifty thou- 
sand dollars have been spent for bitulithic and asphaltic concrete 
streets. A $17,500 city hall is a token of Bartow's progressiveness. 

The city's water supply comes from artesian wells, 726 feet 
deep. Waste and surplus waterfall is carried off by the septic 
tank sanitary and storm sewer system, which cost $95,000. 

Modern fire-fighting equipment, an $8,000 public library. The 
city has a $60,000 jail and a $100,000 court house, one of the finest 
in South Florida. 

The new $60,000 postofiice building occupies a square in the 
center of the city, together with the City Hall. Improvements 
on this square, with foliage and flowers, will make this a remark- 
able beauty spot for Bartow. 

Bartow is the center of one of Florida's best citrus and truck- 
ing centers and is worth a visit. You will find it one of the pret- 
tiest little towns in South Florida. 




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I PALMETTO 

CALMETTO is located on the north bank of the famous 
Manatee River, one of the most beautiful streams in Flor- 
ida. At this particular point the river is over a mile wide, 
and its beauty and grandeur is unsurpassed. 

The City of Palmetto has untold advantages over many of its 
less fortunate sister cities of the State. In natural beauty, situa- 
tion in the great agricultural belt of T'he Land of the Manatee, and 
its general healthful surroundings, is not excelled by any other 
growing city in Florida. 

The city is a thriving place of nearly 3,000 inhabitants, whose 
people are progressive, and firmly believe in the future possibili- 
ties of their town and vicinity, and shape their future by the the- 
ory that the best is none too good for their homes. 

Six miles of brick paved streets, fifteen miles of cement side- 
walks, electric lig^hts, water works, and a sanitary sewer system 
are some of the features that add to the pleasure of urban life. 
Three churches, a Carnegie library, and a high school of the 
first- rank contribute to the spiritual and intellectual welfare of 
the community. There has never been a saloon in t'he city, and 
crime is consequently at a minimum. 

Besides having two of the largest producing groves in Florida, 
The Atwood Grove and The Manatee Fruit Company, there are 
scores of small groves containing from five to thirty acres in the 
vicinity of Palmetto. 

Grapefruit reaches perfection here. The soil is perfectly 
adapted to its growth, and the climate is ideal for maturing the 
fruit. Protected from extremes by the tempering waters of Tampa 
and Terra Ceia Bays, Palmetto groves have never failed to re- 
spond generously to their owners' industrious care. Grapefruit 
trees begin bearing 
at their third o r 
fourth year and 
with proper care 
and attention will 
continue with in- 
creasing production 
for thirty or more 
years. 

Palmetto is right 
in the Manatee 
trucking section of 
Florida, which i s 
known to be the 
most productive in 
the State. Wonder- 
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OCATED in the center of a wonder- 
fully productive agricultural center, 
23 miles northeast of Tampa and 
reached from this city by automobile over 
a brick and hard-surfaced road, or by rail- 
road over either the Atlantic Coast Line or 
Seaboard Air Line. The population is esti- 
mated at 5,:>00. Plant City has several miles 
of paved streets and hard-surfaced roads 
radiating in all directions, three banks with 
combined deposits of nearly $800,000, two 
newspapers, excellent schools, churches, re- 
tail business 'houses, etc. It is a progressive, 
substantial town in all respects, and judging 
from its growth of the past six years — now 
5,300 — the 1910 census giving the population 
at 2,481 — it is destined to become one of the 
really important cities of the State. All of 
the more important pohsphate mines, pro- 
ducing an average of 2,000,000 tons of phos- 
phate rock annually, and giving employment 
to thousands of workmen the year round, are 
located within a radius of 50 miles of Plant 
City. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars has recently been 
spent by Plant City for additional paving and sewerage within 
the city. 

There is something so "homey" about the general atmosphere 
of Plant City that it appeals to the visitor as soon as he comes 
into the city. It's a pretty, attractive place, and its residenial dis- 
trict is one of the prettiest in South Florida. 

It is a good place to live. Good for many reasons, 'but good 
because there are more strawberries raised here than in any other 
place in the world, and more shipped froim the Plant City station 
than any other station in the State of Florida. 

The strawberry growers commenced shipping this year about 
Thanksgiving Day, and Plant City truck farms will still be picking 
strawberries in the month of June. Mr. Northern Man, how about 
stopping for aw'hile in the land of strawberries? By all means 
come here and see this wonderful crop. 



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its maux] natural advantages for ijour approval 

See tlie Venice oi America 

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Here ijou will liiid 

Good Fislimg, Good Hunting, Excellent Golf Links, Official Landing 
Place for Aviators, Good Cliurclies, Good Scliools, Good Hotels. Plenty 
of room for evertjLodtj. Town Water, Electric Liglits, Sanitartj Sewers. 

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By Otis F. Landers. 
SARASOTA— AN INDIAN LEGEND 

IN THE days of the long ago, before the palefaces had in- 
vaded the fastnesses of the home of the Seniinoles, there 
lived a young prince of the tribe named Rising Sun. 

Rising Sun was famed throughout the land of the Seminoles 
as the bravest hunter of them all, and the chase led him to many 
new and strange places. 

On one of his most ambitious forays he was led many miles 
away from his native 
haunts to the land of 
the Yamacraws, far 
to the north. 

Now, Rising Sun 
had been led into 
this far country by a 
beautiful deer with 
wide - spreading ant- 
lears, that he had de- 
t e r m i n e d should 
grace he walls of 
his wigwam in his 
native village. Real- 
izing that he was in 
the land of a hostile 
tribe, he avoided the 
camps of the Yama- 
craws, living off the 
game which he was 
able to kill with his 
bow and arrow and 
the herbs and ber- 
ries which he gath- 
ered in the forests. 

It had been plan- 
ned by Raising Sun's 
father, Eagle Eyes, 
that the prince should 
marry Moring 
Dawn the most 
beautiful maiden of 
the Seminoles, and 
Rising Sun was even 
now on his last great 
hunt prior to his 
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Early one morning, as Rising Sun was stalking the great deer 
which he had determined to kill for the antlers that would further 
distinguish him as a great hunter and would grace the wigwam 
to be shared by himself and Morning Dawn, there burst upon him 
from a nearby stream the most bewildering vision that ever his 
fancy had even conjured. 

Rising Sun, himself hidden from view, stood still and drank in 
the vision, while his savage heart played pranks that caused his 
breath to come and go in short gasps. 

There before him, on the bank of the stream, stood an Indian 
maiden performing her morning ablutions. Her hair was as black 
as the raven and hung far below her waist. The morning sun, 
playing upon the silen tresses, seemed to reflect all the colors 
of the rainbow. She was as straight as an arrow, as graceful as 
the young bay tree under which she was standing, and her skin 
was the color of the ripe mango. When she faced him, Rising 
Sun saw that her lips were full and the color of ripe berries, while 
her teeth were as ivory. Her ears were small and sensitive as 
those of the fawn, and her eyes sparkled as the dewdrops on the 
opening flowers. 

All thought of the deer that had been his quest, now fled from 
the mind of the young prince, and he l)egan to dream of this young- 
Indian maiden as his squaw. 

Thoughts came quickly. He compared the beauty and charm 
of the maiden before him with those of Morning Dawn, and he 
knew that his heart would forever call for this Yamacraw maiden. 
That it would take all the pleasure from the hunt for him to go 
back to his people and take Morning Dawn as his squaw now that 
he had seen this vision. All the force of his strong, savage nature 
was calling for the maiden who stood before him for his (mate. 

Without counting the cost, knowing only that he would never 
be happy without her. Rising Sun determined to take this beauti- 




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ful maiden back to the land of the Seminoles as his own. Cau- 
tiously drawing nearer the unsuspecting maiden, he at last came 
to a jungle of young bay trees growing near the stream from which 
he could spring out upon her. 

Just as she wrapped her gaily-colored blanket about her and 
turned to go back to the camp of her people, Rising Sun sprang 
upon her and quickly bound a fold of her blanket about her mouth 
and tied her hands behind her, using the beautiful tresses of the 
maiden as a rope with which to make fast the bonds. 

So quickly had the deed been accomplished that there was 
scarcely a sound, save the muffled scream when the young prince 
first appeared and the labored breathing of the man and maiden 
as each viewed the other. 

Having the maiden securely bound and helpless with fright. 
Rising Sun tenderly lifted her in his arms and started back to the 
land of Seminoles with his precious prize. 

After the first few hours, when the maiden realized that her 
captor did not intend to harm her, and read from the light that 
shone in his eyes and glorified his face that he loved her, she 
ceased to struggle and went a willing captive. Who can say that 
the Indian had not dreamed, as has many another maiden, of the 
great hunter or brave that would some day come to claim her for 
his own and take her away to some fairy land to live an enchanted 
life forever? 

When Rising Sun realized that the maiden had ceased to strug- 
gle and regarded him with an interest that was not fear, he un- 
bound the blanket from her mouth and untied her hands, for he 



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was fleet and strong and knew that he had carried her far beyond 
the call of her people. 

When the sun had reached a point high overhead, telling the 
Indian that it was time to eat and rest, he made for a stream 
which he remembered passing the day previous. Arriving at the 
stream he spoke to the maiden: "O Beautiful Flower, we will rest 
here and partake of the food which the Great Spirit gives." But 
the maiden only looked at him in a bewildered way and could un- 
derstand nothing of what he said to her. 

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the prince was sad. and he set about teaching the maiden the lan- 
guage of the Seminoles, touching first one object and then an- 
other, and naming them. 

After Rising Sun and Beautiful Flower, (for so we shall know 
the maiden henceforth), had partaken of the dried meat and herbs 
which the young prince carried, and had regaled themselves from 
the sparkling stream, they again started on the long journey to 
the Ian ofd the Seminoles, on the Okeechobee, and by night were 
many miles away from the scenes of the morning. 

Day succeeded day and the couple were nearing the camp of 
Eagle Eyes. 

Rising Sun and Beautiful Flower were now truly lovers. They 

traveled lightly 
throught the dense 
forests, living on 
the game whch 
Rising Sun was able 
to obtain with .his 
bow and arrow, fish 
from the lakes and 
streams, and the 
tropical fruits which 
were in abundance 

Beautiful Flower 
had proved an apt 
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been the case with 
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words in the Seminole tongvie, and to chant some of their love 
songs. 

At last the prince came to the camp of his fathers with the 
maiden, and desired that the marriage ceremony be performed at 
once. But Eagle Eyes was black with wrath. Had it not 'been for 
Rising Sun he would have had the beautiful maiden killed. 

To his son, Eagle Eyes said: "You are no longer a son of my 
people. Since I have pledged my word that you are to take Morn- 
ing Dawn for your squaw you come 'bringing this maiden of a 
strange people, asking that I sanction your marriage to her. I will 
never allow the blood of the Seminoles to be polluted by such a 
marriage." 

Havmg spoken, the Indian chief ordered the prince to his wig- 
wam, and had Beautiful Flower siezed by two of his braves and 
bound and placed in another wigwam under guard. 

The heart of Rising Sun was sad. He knew that his father had 
spoken and that his word was law. The heart of the prince called 
out for its mate, and he realized that the possession of Beautiful 
Flower meant more to him than life. 

The young prince sat in his wigwam contemplating the death 
of himself and the maiden, whom he was determined to kill rather 
than that she should be tortured by the braves of his own people. 

While in his mind he was planning the mthod by which he 
planned to kill hte maiden and then himself, he recalled an old In- 
dian legend. He remembered to have heard Big Bear, the father 
of Eagle Eyes, tell of a country far to the west; a land where the 



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choicest fruits grew in abundance, where the deer, bear and turkey 
were to l)e found, where the Great Water was full of the choicest 
hsh, and where the blossoms of the trees kept the air scented with 
their perfume. 

With this in mind he sought the medicine man of the camp, 
Kuro-Mutake, "Worker of Miracles," with whom he had always 
been a favorite, and begged advice and assistance. 

"O beloved prince," said Kuro-Mutake, "Sarasota, (Beyond the 
Rocks), is the land of which you speak. Once, when I was yet a 
small lad, my father told me of having gone to this country for b'g 
fish. It lies far to the setting sun. It is called Sarasota because 
it is on a great water, where the shore is shaped like the new 
moon, with great rocks guarding the points. It is a land pro- 
tected by the Great Spirit, and it is said that no storms ever ob- 
scure the skies there, and that the fruits of its trees and vines are 
sweeter than the fruits of other places." 

So Rising Sun pursuaded Kuro-Mutake to assist him in escap- 
ing with Beautiful Flower, and ere the morning's sun shown on the 
camp, the lovers were well on their way to the land of legend and 
of promise. They followed the sun for many days and at last 
came to a bay, broad and beautiful. 

Here on the shores of the Great Water, Rising Sun erected his 
wigwam and placed therein his squaw, Beautiful Flower. And 
legend has it that they lived a life of devotion seldom seen be- 
tween Indians' and that the children of Rising Sun and Beautiful 
Flower were the bravest of the Seminoles, and were good friends 
of the white man until he betrayed them. 

The race is now nearly extinct, onyl a few hundred being left, 
and they have greatly degenerated from the teachings of their 
ancestors, but to this day, near Sarasota, may be found some of 
the pre-historic Indian mounds, and the legend of Rising Sun and 
Beautiful Flower is often told. 

It is said that on certain afternoons the likeness of the young 
Indian prince and his bride can be seen in the clouds that form the 
gorgeous sunsets over the Great Water (the Gulf of Mexico.) 



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SARASOTA— A WHITE MAN'S LEGEND 

By the Same Author 

This unsurpassed land of the legend is still calling to those who 
want to escape the frigid winters of their northern homes, or who 
desire a permanent home in one of the most beautiful and produc- 
tive regions of a State that is famed for its genial clime, its peren- 
nial sunshine and its tropical scenery; where the mocking birds fill 
the air with music as the flowers laden it with perfume. 

From the time of the Indian, the many attractions of Sarasota 
have continued to invite the children of men, and today the tourist 
who fails to visit that town that is situated on the beach that is 
shaped "like the new moon," has missed one of the incomparable 
experiences of a trip to "The Land of Flowers." 

Sarasota offers many attractions pecularly alluring to the win- 
ter visitor. Here the fishing is all that the most ardent devotee 
can ask, innumerable fresh water lakes and rivers teeming with 
game fish, the bay abounding in oysters, clams and an endless 
variety of fish, while the Gulf of Mexico offers unlimited oppor- 
tunity for the deep sea 
fisherman. 

The tarpon and king 
fish are caught here 
i n large quantities, 
while the other deep 
sea fish are so abun- 
dant that four lar.!.;e 
wholesale fish houses 
are able to ship many 
carloads a week to the 
inland markets. 

For those who do 
not care for the hunt- 
ing and fishing pro- 
vision has been made 
by the establishment 
of a splendid -golf 
course that is subsi- 
dized l)y the munici- 
pality, and which will 
doubtless become a 
municipal course. 

Those seeking sur- 
cease from the strenu- 
ous life for a few 
month's rest will find 
Sarasota an ideal re- 
treat, and yet will find 
all the comforts of 
the city Here they 
will nfid a small city 
of 2,500 population 
with 12 miles of paved 
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the leading churches and secret organization being represented by 
a live membership, an energetic Board of Trade, a notable Wo- 
mans Club, maintaining a Public Library, mercantile establish- 
ments carrying complete lines of goods ranging from the moderate 
priced to the most expensive, representatives of the profession 
who have the most modern facilities for transacting the business 
of their clients, two strong and well-officered financial inetitutions, 
a good weekly newspaper, the daily papers from Tampa, both 
morning and evening, arriving within a few hours after publication, 
and transportation by rail and water to the metropolis of the west 
coast of Florida — Tampa; one of the most comfortable theatres 
in South Florida, and many other forms of amusement. 

For the accommodation of visitors the city has a number of 
comfortable hotels, ranging widely in prices, according to the ac- 
commodation desired. There are a number of luxurious homes 
and cottages for rent, while many of the citizens rent rooms in 
their homes at moderate prices. Besides the hotels in the city, 
the adjacent keys have splendid hotels that are famed for their fare 
of sea food and comforta'ble quarters. 

The person who is looking for a location for a permanent 
home in Florida should by all means investigate the Sarasota Bay 
District. The soil is very productive, returning to the industrious 
trucker or grove owner a most satisfactory return for efforts ex- 
pended. Not only is this section one of the erfomost citrus and 
celery producing sections of the State, but the staple crops do well 
here. Sugar cane is especially profitable, and corn and rice can be 
grown with much success. 

People s'hould not come here with the expectation of making 
a fortune the first year; money does not grow on palm trees, nor 
do the streets flow with milk and honey, but to the prospective 
settler who has enough capital to carry him through the first year 
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his business that he would in any other section of the country, 
Sarasota offers unsurpassed opportunities. 

We might use all the terms of the poet, all the music of the 
artist and every color of the rainbow, and yet not convey to our 
reader one-half the beauty of the incomparable Florida scenery, 
the exhiliration of the perfumed, song-laden atmosphere, or the 
gloriy of one sunset on Sarasota Bay. 

We have tried to give you a conception of what Sarasota has 
to offer the prospective visitor or home-seeker through the me- 
dium of the accompanying illustrations. An idea of the climatic 
conditions which prevail throughout the year may be obtained 
from the accompanying table, which is made up from the official 
weather report for the past twelve months: 



High Low Preti). 

"9 28 .30 

35 2.29 
39 



December, 1917 

January, 1918 75 

February, 1918 81 

March, 1918 83 53 1.05 

April, 1918 85 

May, 1918 89 



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High Low Precip 

.June, 1918 90 71 4.25 

.July, 1918 93 70 3.70 

August, 1918 93 71 2.50 

September, 1918 91 69 4. 19 

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SARASOTA— THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY 

For the man wh..o has capital to invest, who wants to "get in 
on the ground floor," and grow with the country, Sarasota offers 
unlimited possibilities. The amount of produce grown on the 
fertile soil, the adaptability of the country to the production of 
stock, as well as the large numbers of tish caug'ht daily in the 
adjacent waters, make the possibilities in the canning industry 
very attractive. 

Clay suitable for making pottery is found near Sarasota, and 
this industry invites the attention of capital. 

Owing to climatic conditions, making the heating of manufac- 
turing plants unnecessary; the long sunlit days, the splendid trans- 
portation facilities, almost any manufacturing enterprise can oper- 
ate here at a less expense than in sections requiring large expen- 
ditures for light and heat. 




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XMAGINE yourself on the top of a motor launch; under- 
neath you are the blue and milky waters, colored by the 
coral reefs at the "bottom of Boca Ceiga Bay, above you 
the wonderful sunshine of a Florida day. Behind you the sandy 
shores of the Pinellas peninsula. Over to your left the long, low 
outline of a wooded key with myriads of water fowl screaching 
their defiance; ahead a narrow opening in another tropical is- 
land; you follow this narrow channel for an eighth of a mile and 
sweep around the head of another long beach fringed with pal- 
metto and other sub-tropical vegetation and you are at the Pass> 
Pass-a-Grille — known all over the country for its fishing, its. 
fish dinners and its quaint and pleasing picturesqueness, a place in 
the center of inland seas; the home of the pelican, the water birds 
and the fiddlers. Its waters teem with every conceivable variety 
of fish, while every kind of shell fish is waiting to contribute 
themselves to your epicurean taste. 

The island has a number of good hotels and boarding houses,, 
but its greatest charm is in its cottage colony. People come here 
from all over the United States to spend the winter, while many 
Floridians spend the summer at Pass-a-Grile. 

Here is one of the best bathing beaches in Florida, the warm 
waters of the Gulf offering something the Northerner has never 
experienced at home. 

And fishing — you have to fish at Pass-a-Grille to know what 
fishing is. The lordly tarpon — king of all fishing sport — calls this 
his home; king fish, mackerel and all the other game fish, each 
gamier than the other, are here; each in its season. 

Of course you will visit Pass-a-Grille. No real experienced 
Florida tourist ever goes to Florida and misses a trip here. 

If you are not a fisherman and it's wonderful fishing opportu- 
nities do not attract you, don't forget the other things for which 
Pass-a-Grille is famous. 

Whenever you think of "Stone crabs," you think of Pass-a- 
Grille just the same, as when you visit Pass-a-Grille you eat "stone 
crabs." When you see the one you think 
of the other. 

And if you have never eaten any 
"stone crabs" by all means make your 
first visit to Pass-a-Grille soon. 

A bridge from the mainland has re- 
cently been constructed and it is now 
possible to drive the entire length of 
the key on a very good hard road. This 
bridge and drive has proved to be a 
natural asset to the property of this 

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T. PETERSBURG, the "Sunshine City," as she has been 
named, is on the southern end of the Pinellas Peninsula, 
and is the largest resort town on the West Coast. The 
city is l^eautifully laid out, and its wide streets, beautiful drives, 
inland lakes and large expanse of water front make it an ideal 
place for winter residence. 

Central Aveenue, its magnificent boulevard, divides the city in 
two sections. It is seven miles long, and reaches from Tampa 
Bay on the east to Boca Ceiga Bay on the west. 

The city is one of the healthiest in the South, with a death 
rate last year of 6.5 per thousand. 

The city has a cominission form of government, and has effi- 
cient police and fire departments. 

St. Petersburg owns its own water supply, which comes from 
artesian wells, and also owns its own gas plant. 

The City has four banks, many large hotels and an adequate 
supply of smaller boarding houses, cottages and apartments. 

The city schools number eight l)uildings, and the system of 
instruction is on the highest plan. All school privileges are free 
to children of visitors. 

A recently constructed yatching basin, twenty-nine acres in 
area, is the pride of the city, affording a safe harbor for the numer- 
ous private yachts and launches of the visitors. This harbor is 
protected with a concrete wall, and is very attractive in appearance. 

The waters around St. Petersburg teem with all sorts of fish 
and some of the best sport in the South is enjoyed here. 

The long, sandy beaches at both sides of the city, afford the 
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In amusements, the city has its share to offer the stranger 
within her gates. An opera house, one of the finest in the South, 
costing $125,000. and seating 2,500, offers theatrical attractions, 
and numerous moving- picture houses, bowling alleys, all winter 
base'ball, and other attractions are offered. 

"The Sunshine Pleasure Club," a tourist organization, meets 
daily in Williams Park to play checkers, chess, rouque and cro- 
quet. Horseshoe pitching is a local fad of its members, and many 
tournaments are held here during the season. 

The l)}g municipal pier, forty feet wide, and extending far out 
into Old Tampa Bay, is one of the attractions of the water front, 
and is greatly enjoyed by fishermen and pleasure-seekers. Autoists 
drive out to the end, and at times, long lines of pleasure cars can 
be found motoring over the rippling waters of the bay. 

Here one meets his old friend, Mr. Pelican, who, with the 
numerous members of his family, perch upon the timbers of the 
pier, and wink and blink at you. The pelicans are not a bit afraid, 
and very much enjoy having their pictures taken. 

Friendly ducks float upon the waters below your feet, and 
flocks of gulls and other birds fly about your head. 

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self. Vour mind leaves its usual grooves of thought and you be- 
come a friend of the birds and the fishes. 

The St. Petersburg Golf Club has a beautiful eighteen hole 
course that is one of the best in South Florida, and is daily the 
center of the many devotees of th s popular sport. 

The city of St. Petersburg las forty-eight miles of brick streets,. 
ninety mi-es of cement Sidewalks, twenty-four miles of sewers^ 
twenty-six miles of trolley lines, and eight city-owned parks. 

The St. Petersburg Yacht Club has recently built a new club 
house, and when completed, the grounds will be a show place of 
the city. 

Hundreds of guests come to this resort from every State in the 
Union, the var.ous States organizing their own tourist clubs^ 
which are all un'tes of the larger organization. Various excursions 
concerts, entertainments and out-door trips are arranged from 
time to time during the season. 

Everybody enjoys himself in St. Peterslmrg. It's a big demo- 
cratic, cosmopolitan throng, that minds its own business, except 
to make it its business, to help the newcomer have a good time. 
And it boosts for St. Petersburg all the t me — all the time in St. 
Petersburg, and all the time after they go home. That's the secret 
of the success of the resort. Everybody helps everybody else to 
enjoy their visit, and then everybody goes home and come back 
again the next year and bring their friends along. 




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UILT back from a high bluff on Clearwater Bay, over- 
looking the Gulf of Mexico, a scant two miles distant, 
Clearwater is scattered out along one of the most beautiful 
shore lines that extend for many miles in either direction. 

It reaches inland for nearly a mile and is one of the prettiest 
residential cities in South Florida. A city of homes away from 
bustle and confusion, Clearwater people live in an atmosphere of 
rest and enjoyment that is rarely found in a place so large. It is 
a city of thrift and progress, and a general air of prosperity is 
apparent everywhere you look. 

To speak of Clearwater as a restful town does not mean that 
it is a slow going town. It is full of life, industry; and business- 
enterprise is manifested everywhere. Her citizens are on the job- 
whenever the subject of civic progress is mentioned, and the- 
visitor who has been away from Clearwater for a year or two will 
marvel at the many changes that are in evidence in all parts of 
the town. 

It boasts of good, substantial public buildings, broad, well 
lighted, and well paved streets, fine sewerage system, excellent 
schools, churches and everything that goes to make an up-to- 
date town. 

To the stranger, Clearwater is well worth seeing. It is a city 
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will like, and like to live in. Try it for a few weeks and see how 
much better you grow to like it from day to day. Clearwater is 
a 'good town from most any angle you look at it. It's congenial 
people, good living conditions, good stores, good banks, good 
water, and a hundred other things emphasize this fact. 

Take a walk through the main business street of the town. 
View the way the busy merchants are doing business. See the 
activity in the city banks, call at the real estate offices, see how 
busy things are at the post office and you absorb some of the "go" 
there is in things about you. 

Then walk on down the bay shore and far out to the end of 
the city pier and look the town over from the water side, the 
beautiful lawns along the bay front, the green sub-tropical foliage, 
the many-colored plants, the beautiful homes and public buildings. 
Cast your eye out over the wide expanse of blue waters glistening 
under a Florida sun. See the skimming sea birds, the wise old 
pelicans, with now and then a leaping fish to let you know of the 
thousands of others beneath the surface, all ready to be caught. 
See the long low keys across the bay, that separate the inland 
body of water from the Gulf of Mexico. See the sandy beaches, 
whose shores are broken here and there with lofty palmettos. 

Stop and think of all this scenic lovliness. Where have you 
ever seen its equal? Where have your pulses throbbed, as they 
do at this wonderful scene. Think of the water trips, the bathing 
and fishing that is here for you. Do you know anything about 
the fishing possibilities? Do you know that you can go out a 
short distance from the dock you are standing on and catch hun- 
dreds of trout and other fish, or that if you care> to go a little 
farther out to rocky bottom, that grouper, grunt and red snapper 
will give you the fishing you want? Or in mackerel or king fish 
season, when these migratory fish are running, that here is one of 
the best fishing grounds on the coast? And tarpon, the much- 
storied game fish of Florida, the king of all sport fish — well 




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Will Make Good for Yoxi 

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West Coast 

CLEARWATER 

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you are right on good tarpon grounds when you are off shore at 
Clearwater. 

Situated in the very center of peerless Pinellas County, the 
healthiest area of the United States, its good fishing, good hunt- 
ing, good motoring, good yachting, good beac'hes, good bathing, 
good hotels and good boarding houses, all invite you to pay it a 
visit and fall in love with its natural charms, and build your home 
there as hundreds of others have done, and are all glad that they 
have done it. 

The site where the town is now situated was the camping 
grounds of the Indians in earlier days and was chosen 100 years 
ago by the U. S. forces for the erection of their fort, (later 
named Fort Harrison) owing to its healthful and strategical pos- 
ition. 

The low coast line of Florida is here transformed into a bluff 
of rare beauty, giving to Clearwater the greatest elevation of any 
coast city in Florida. 

Clearwater is the natural sequence to these old historical facts, 
and this bold headline overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, which is 
our inheritance today, was peopled by the first white settlers 
owing to its distinct features of healthfulness, fertility and beauty 
during all the seasons of the year. And what was true then still 
holds good with the further emphasis of modern sanitation, deep- 
er knowledge of the conditions of the soil and with the building 
of up-to-date attractive homes. 

Nowhere on the American mainland is the temperature, sum- 
mer and winter, more pleasant and invigorating. In summer the 
thermometer seldom registeres 90 degrees or more, but averages 
about 82 degrees; a drop of 33 degrees in winter is a rare event, 




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indeed, as the average for day and night in mid-winter is about 
62. On account of location and elevation, unlike that of many- 
other coast cities, the atmosphere is remarkably free from mois- 
ture and fogs throughout the winter season. 

Clearwater is in the very center of the citrus industry on the 
Pinellas Peninsula. 

From the Clearwater zone is shipped annually over a half 
million boxes of citrus fruit, and the revenue derived from this 
source is reflected in the wealth of the community. There are 
thousands, of acres of fine citrus land yet to be developed. The 
demand is growing daily, and if you are interested in the business 
of fruit growing at all, you would do well to investigate its untold 
possibilities now. 

For the man of agricultural ability or inclination, good farm 
land is also still available close at hand, and a great variety of 
vegetables can be successfully grown. 

Clearwater possesses a cosmopolitan citizenship, the congen- 
iality of which is unequalled, and it truthfully claims to be the city 
of unsurpassed sunsets and natural beauty. It claims for it- 
self the title of "The Golden Sunset City," and many of its ardent 
admirers go a step farther and call it the garden spot of Florida. 

Very few Florida towns possess so much beauty as to attract 
hundreds of Northern visitors every season, with such ideal lo- 
cation in the center of Florida's citrus and farming section. The 
happy combination makes it a prosperous, all the year round town 
and attracts both tourists and investors as well. 




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The city has 
over 3,500 popu- 
lation and is 
• apidly growing. 
In 1910 it had 
1,170 people. This 
steady growth 
has not come in 
frenzied booms. 
It has developed 
on account of its 
natural advant- 
ages, and the 
fact that each 
year more and 
more from the 
outside have dis- 
covered its na- 
tural charms and 
decided to cast 
their lot with its 
people. 

Local tax rates 
la r e reasonable 
and c o m p are 
favorably with 
other towns in 
the South. 

Houses can be 
rented at nom- 
inal figures, and 
yet are in con- 
s t a n t demand 
throughout the 
entire year. 

Clearwater has 
good hotels and 
boarding houses; 
visitors can ob- 
tain excellent ac- 
commoda t i o n s, 
yet it needs many 
more to take care 
of the increasing 
number of tour- 
i s t s every year, 
and the erection 
of new, big mod- 
e r n hostelries 
would be a profi- 
table investment. 

In the past five 
years, business 
buildings and res- 
idences aggregat- 
ing nearly $1,000- 
000 have been 



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An. Early Morning: Cateli 



erected in Clearwa- 
ter. Nine miles of 
paved streets and 
fourteen miles o f 
sidewalks have been 
constructed. A 
county court house 
costing $129,000 has 
just been completed. 
A Carnegie libra- 
ry and a city hospi- 
t a 1 costing more 
than $50,000, with an 
aippropriation o f 
$100,000 for a Fed- 
eral building, a large 
amusement pavilion at the beach, a fifty acre residential suburb, 
which has been beautified, all tend to put Clearwater out of the 
rural class, and give it a real metropolitan rating. 

Clearwater is represented in its religious life by churches of 
seven denominations. Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Metho- 
dist, Christian and Christian Science. It has the usual number 
of fraternal organizations, a live Board of Trade and Womans 
Club. Clearwater has a daily paper and another that is published 
weekly. 

The city is well supplied with parks, affording the stranger 
ample scope for recreation, and bathing in the Gulf of Mexico is 
a recreation that san be enjoyed the year round. A perfect 
bathing beach, with heavy, firm beach sand that does not blow or 
drift, helps to make the bathing more desirable, while more daring 
bathers can go out to the end of the municipal pier for a deep 
water plungs. 

A land-locked harbor for yachts and launches, with the bound- 
ing waters of the Gulf just outside for boating and fishing, leaves 
nothing to be desired for the lover of winter sports. 

The visiting autoist will find real delight in the good roads to 




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Good KoatlH all About Clear-water 

be found running out of Clearwater in every direction. Fine 
brick highways run to St. Petersburg, sixteen miles in one di- 
rection and Tampa, thirty miles distant in the other. Both of 
these drives are most interesting and a trip through the 
Pinellas orange groves is a sight the Northern tourist will never 




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Oue of ClearT\'ater's Homes 

forget. Picture a vast grove of wonderful green foliage with its 
precious crop of golden ripening fruit, or later in the year, along 
toward the end of the tourist season when these same trees are 
loaded with beautiful white blossoms, whose fragrance perfumes 
the a'ir for miles around. 




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The roads running out of Clearwater present many varied 
scenes to delight the eye of the motorists, with wonderful water 
views from time to time. The drive out to Belleair, and through 
the hotel grounds, is one that tourist come many miles to see. 

The big Belleview hotel is situated on a blufif overlooking the 
gulf and is surrounded by some of the most beautiful natural 
scenery on the whole Gulf Coast. The two big golf courses run 
all around the hotel on the shore side and are said to be two of 
the finest in the South. 

To the lover of golf this place should be a regular mecca to 
satisfy his wildest longings. Golfers come here from all over the 
country and some of the biggest tournaments in the South are 
regularly played here. You see all the national cracks in action 
on the Belleaire course in one of these big events. 

The two mile bridge connecting Clearwater with the long low 
key in front of the town is another delightful dr'ive. Clearwater 
Beach on this island is rapidly becoming a popular resort. Here 
is found a restaurant, pavilion and good bathing beach. Bus lines 
are also in operation. 

Speaking of buses. Motor lines run out of Clearwater on reg- 
ular schedule to St. Petersburg, Tarpon Springs and Tampa, con- 
necting at the latter place with buses to L,akeland, Winter Haven, 
Orlando and points on the East Coast. 

Clearwater has a live Board of Trade that maintains regular 
offices with an attendant in charge who will gladly furnish those 



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who are interested in the city or surrounding country with such 
information as they desire. 

The City of Clearwater welcomes new people, with new cap- 
ital, who care to come here and help in the development of the 
town. It needs more houses, new hotels and new industries. 




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Money invested here in another hotel or new homes for winter 
guests is sure to yield a comfortable income, as accommodations 
are taxed to the utmost every winter. 

Clearwater's delightful climate in the summer time is worthy 
of your attention if you are looking for an all-year-round home in 
Florida. The refreshing breezes from the Gulf insure mild sum- 
mers and its nearness to the great Gulf Stream insures warmth 
in the winter. The piney forests all around and about the whole 



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Right in the Center of the 
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Pinellas Peninsular insures healthful zephyrs at all seasons of the 
3'ear. 

So whether you are looking for a place to spend your winters, 
seeking a mild, healthful Florida climate, rather than stay at home 
in the North and face its chilly blasts, or want an all-year-round 
home in Florida — Clearwater has many things to offer you 
that will be of interest. Don't go back home without looking it 
over. 

Clearwater is near by to so many places you expect to visit 
while you are in Florida that it will be very easy for you to come 
and see all about it for yourself. If you are in Tampa, its only 
an hour and a half by motor bus, or less than that in your own 
car. If you are in St. Petersburg its only a short ride. Come and 
spend a day or two and see its beautiful scenery, and its general 
air of good order and prosperity. And by all means stay long 
enough to have one good day's fishing. That will settle it for 
Clearwater,' if you are a lover of the sport. If you are a lover of 
the beautiful just one Clearwater sunset will settle it. See the 
sun sink into the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico and you will 
want to stay and see it set another time. Come and see Clear- 
water and catch some of the charm of this beautiful little city 
along the rippling waters of the bay. 




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Dade City 



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9 CITY that is set on a hill cannot be hid." But there are 
many cities with advantageous locations as to altitude, 
which have attracted only casual attention, because they 
have had no striking message to convey to the rest of the world. 

Unless a city proclaims itself from its hilltop, it merely sits 
and suns itself. Dade City, Florida, had the "sunning habit" un- 
til it solved the problem of cooperation. Now it is not only set 
on a hill, but is attracting attention to its eminence, and to its 
inviting opportunities. 

The new era in Dade City's development dates from the time 
when a few of the younger men determined to reorganize the 
Dade City Board of Trade. For many years a few of the faith- 
ful had maintained an organization bearing the name. But meet- 
ings were few and far between and the membership was confined 
to less than a baker's dozen. 

Came then one man from Iowa, another from Minnesota, 
another from Kansas, one from Honolulu, still another from Alas- 
ka, and the local commercial organization took on new life. Vol- 
unteers entered into friendly competition in the matter of securing 
new members. 

In one week the membership jumped from fourteen to twenty-i 
eight; in another week there were ninety-one names on the roll;[j 
in two weeks more, 200 had affixed their signatures to member- 
ship pledges and there were weekly luncheons with speakers from 
other cities. Mass meetings were held in the Board of Trade 
rooms. Practically every business man, every clerk and every 
professional man, as well as many of the farmers in the neighbor- 
hood, were proudly proclaiming their membership in the organi- 
zation. Men were working together for the good of the town 
and consequent individual benefit. 

The "old guard" and the "new guard" shouldered arms and^ 
marched to the front to herald the advantages of their town.. 
Out of a population 
of about 3,000, seven- 
ty per ■ cent felt the 
stir of the new com- 
munity life 3nd /be- 
gan to make capital 
of their boast that 
there was "no pret- 
tier, healthier nor 
more productive 
country i ft Florida 
than Pasco County." 
They proved it by 
facts and figures. 
They went out into 
the highways of com- 
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industries and wan- 
dering capital. They 
attracted new citi- 
zens. They struck 
a new stride. 

While spreading" 
the gosjDel of Dade 
City to "the country 
at large, they kept 
actively on the job 
at home. Intensi- 
fied rivalry among 
those who took 
pride in the beauti- 
fication of their 




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homes resulted from the impetus given community life by the 
Woman's Club. This organization was instrumental in the in- 
stallation of a comprehensive, scientific city sewerage system, in 
the purchase by the city council of a choice site for a model city 
park, nad in laying of asphalt streets in the business district. 
These and other reforms were accomplished in rapid succession. 

CITY AND COUNTY COOPERATE. 

City life is now in a healthy condition. Cooperation between the 
civic organizations and the farmers of the surrounding country 
has been given attention. A big part of the Board of Trade's 
■business is to assist the farmer in such plans of planting as shall 
give the local growers production in carload lots, which brings 
to the railroad station cash buyers for winter truck, for field crops 
and for livestock. 

Lack of method in raising and marketing crops had delayed 
development of the back country. The high, rolling, fertile, well- 
drained, productive lands, characteristic of the Dade City district, 
are capable of yielding a great variety of big-money crops, but 
until the city organizations began to organize the country, the 
rural residents had not taken full advantage of their opportunities. 
Bill Smith and John Jones might raise a little cabbage, but 

their neighbors rais- 
ed something else. 
Consequently, while 
the acreage produc- 
tion was high, the 
total output was too 
small to permit of 
carload shipments, 
such as would bring 
cash buyers on the 
ground. 

It is possible to 
produce .$500 worth 
of crops to the acre, 
but most of the 
growers made no 
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mark. Living was easy; there was no winter cold to worry 
about; the climate was agreeable; crops were raised with a small 
amount of work, and many of the growers felt that there was no 
use in making special effort to systematize agriculture. 

The same conditions that prevailed in the Middle West in the 
early days existed in the highlands of Pasco County until the 
younger element came along and called for greater efficiency 
through organization. When this element got into action, the 
people of Dade City and Pasco County began to reap the reward 
to which they were entitled. 

To the reader or traveler who pictures Florida as a flat strip 
of land laying between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, 
and occasionally overflowed hy each, the undulating and, in places, 
hilly nature of the land of Pasco County causes astonishment. In 
this narrow strip of country, not more than twenty miles long, 
ten-per-cent grades are frequent, and from some of the higher 
hills the motorist can see for miles across a beautiful rolling 
country. 

THE SOIL OF THIS SECTION. 

The sandy, yellow top soil is underlaid with red or orange- 
colored clay. The greater the elevation, the stronger the top 




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soil becomes. The heavy growth of long-leaf yellow pine has, 
excepting in a few cases, found its way to the mill. The pine has 
been succeeded by agrowth of small oak that furnishes shade for 
the land and potash for the farmer and fruit grower. 

When the virgin soil is broken by the plow, encouraging re- 
sults follow. Corn, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, cassava, oats, rye, 
millet and sorghum thrive. 

The climatic conditions, as to warmth and abundant rainfall, 
call for the careful consideration of the progressive investor who 
would put a proper value on this part of highland Florida. 
Some evidence of what this combination will do for production 
is found in the rank growth of grapes, figs, bananas and other 
fruits on the tops of some of the highest hills. 

It requires a warm climate, a strong soil and much moisture 
to make these fruits grow. They thrive on the hilltops of Pasco 
County, with its mild climate, (because there is unusual strength 
in the sandy soil, and because this soil is one of the best self- 
mulchers in the world. Long before the famous Campbell sys- 
tem of dry farming was introduced in the West, the corn farmers 
and fruit growers of Florida were dust mulching their fields dur- 
ing the dry winter periods with the acme harrow. 

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attraction that makes the rolling land of Pasco County so pro-; 
ductive. In this sunny semi-tropical country, when the new-^ 
comer tops a hill and feels certain that he can see the Gulf of, 
Mexico some thirty miles away, he may ponder upon his farming 
experiences in the West or Middle West and wonder how he can 
farm with profit on the hilly land around Dade City. 

While he is wondering, he may chance to note that the cuts, 
through which the highway runs, show a good clay base, any- 
where from a foot to three feet from the surface. Perhaps, also, 
he will notice that Japan clover is growing wild in the woods 
and frequently carpets the ground in open places. After that, 
he may gaze upon the thousands of acres of velvet beans, cow- 
peas, "land-building" beans, and other legumes that are thriving 
in the fields. 

The experienced Floridian, of whom the farmer from elsewhere 
may seek information as to soil fertility, will reply: 

So long as we have a growing season of from nine to eleven 
months; so long as there are 300 days of sunshine and fifty inches 
of rainfall annually; so long as this sandy loam will retain mois- 
ture under all weather conditions, and so long as legumes will 
grow, and there is a clay base to support the topsoil, just so long 
will our lands continue to improve and to produce better crops 
each year." 

A WIDE DIVERSITY OF CROPS. 

In the course of a drive through the district, the seeker after 
the truth will find on one side of a farm fence sandy soil covered 
with turkey or blackjack oak, so typical of this region. On the 
other side of the fence the farmer from Indiana may be giving 
his corn land a fall plowing in September. Two years of spring- 
corn, summer legumes and fall turning under have given his soil 
a dark, chocolate, color with the general appearance of a good 
Illinois prairie. 

Some of the finest and most profitable grapefruit and orange 
produced in Florida come from the highlands of Pasco County. 
There are hundreds of lakes in the county and their waters, 
coupled with the extreme elevation of the country, temper the 
cold winds of the winter and make it possible to raise even the 
sensitive lemon upon the Pasco hills. 

For some reason, not exactly determined, citrus fruit growji 
on these hills not only ripen earlier in the winter, but hangs on 
the trees in perfect condition, without becoming "woody," for 
months after it is in condition for shipment. Tfiis unusual ad- 
vantage permits Pasco County fruit growers to hold their fruit 
in perfect safety, and with almost no loss from "drops," for the 
higher-priced markets of April and May. 

The loose, friable, warm soil of the Pasco Highlands, suppor- 
ted 'by a yellow clay base, produces an abundance of early spring 
tomatoes of high color, solid and of excellent shipping quality. 
In this region a spring tomato crop may be made for from $60 
to $100 per acre and frequently it shows a net profit of $200. 
Without clearing the timber from his land, J. W. Urquart, who 
came here from another part of Florida in 1915, put his land in 
tomatoes and made $1,800 from six acres. 



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Bermuda onions are produced in this region at an average cost 
of $65 an acre and have been sold at a profit to the grower of 
several hundred dollars per acre. 

Svi^eet potatoes, the Florida farmer's standby, grow in the 
(highlands as in no other part of the State. Yields of from 200 to 
500 bushels per acre are on record and the prevailing market 
price is from eighty cents to $1 a bushel. Sweet potatoes are 
planted in May and if allowed to remain in the ground will keep 
on growing until late in the fall. They have been known to weigh 
fifteen pounds each. 

Another spring crop, which is a consistent help to the new- 
comer in getting a start, is watermelons. On new land they often 
average a carload to the acre, selling at from $100 to $200 peer 
car. They are easily and inexpensively grown and if planted in 
January and February are regarded as a "sure thing" by the farm- 
ers of Pasco County. 

Among the favored summer crops are eggplant and peppers. 
Eggplant can be made for about $75 an acre and have netted ten 
times that amount in the highlands ofPasco. Peppers are planted 
and ripen at almost all seasons of the year, and may bs grown 
as a spring, summer or fall crop. Some of the Pasco County 
growers have ripe peppers in September and set out new plants 
during the same month. 

Strawberries, blackberries, blueberries and dewberries are on 
the Pasco growers' list. In 1916 home-grown blackberries sold 
in Dade City in crate lots at twelve and a half cents a box. 

THOUSANDS OF CATTLE ON THE HILLS. 

There are 10,000 open-range cattle and 350 grade dairy cattle 
in Pasco County. Among the dairy cattle are several purebred 
bulls, one of them from the famous Biltmore farms of North 
Carolina. 

Pasco County is famous for its tobacco, and Dade City is a 
tobacco shipping point. The shade-grown Sumatra wrapper 
tobacco, raised within a mile of the center of the city, produces 
1,500 pounds an acre and has sold from eighty cents to $2.50 a 
pound. One tobacco concern in Dade City represents an invest- 
ment of more than $100,000. 

Every farmer 
raises corn. Most of 
it is produced with- 
out particular care 
as to seed selection 
or land preparation, 
but there are fre- 
quent yields of 40 
bushels to the acre, 
which at the pre- 
vailing price of $1 
per bushel, means a 
good profit for the 
grower, especially 
as it is followed by 
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of grass that makes good pasture, or will cut from $20 to $40 
worth of hay to the acre. 

GOOD ROADS AND EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES. 

Pasco County,, with an assessed valuation of $3,725,000, dur- 
ing 1915 and 1916 built $275,000 woith of hard roads. Part of 
this new hard road is included in the National Highway, the 
shortest auto route between Jacksonville and Tampa. During 
the past five years the city has shown an increase of eighty per 
cent, and the county nearly thirty per cent in population. 

The Dade city public school, with an auditorium seating 700, 
teaches twelve grades, including special work in domestic science, 
manual training and music. It has fourteen teachers and more 
than 300 pupils. It is accredited to the State educational in- 
situations and is unique in that it has its own printing plant, from 
which is issued a weekly publication and a high-school annual. 
A school auto and school wagons bring the children from the 
oiitlaying districts to school each morning and take them home 
each afternoon during the school year. 

St. Leo College, aschool for boys, located a short distance 
west of Dade City, and overlooking one of the many beautiful 
lakes in the Pasco highlands, and the Holy Name Academy, a 
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sessed b y Pasco. 
There are seven 
churches holding 
regular services in 
Dade City, and 
many others in dif- 
ferent parts of the 
county. 

Dade City is the 
county seat o f 
Pasco and is proud 
of its $50,000 court- 
house. The Board 
of Trade and the 
Woman's Club are 
working on a pro- 
ject for a club building, to be owned and used by both organ- 
izations. 

There are lodges of Masons, Knights of Pythias, Woodmen 
of hte World, a chapter of Eastern Star and a large number of 
social and literary organizations. No department of socials, 
civic, fraternal or educational life has been neglected in the com- 
munity upbuilding. 

AN OLD COUNTRY WITH NEW ENTHUSIASM, 

Added to a stability of many years is the enthusiasm of a new 
Western civilization. The present population is for progress 
along all lines. The newcomers are joining in a chorus, the 
burden of which is: "More people on the healthy, productive 
highlands of Pasco." 

With splendid material to work on, and having as a foundation 
a well established city and a vigorously healthy and generally 
successful rural population, the leading spirits of the city and 
county are proceeding with asystematic organization of all the 
industries and all the forces available. 

In farming, fruit growing and manufacturing the Dade City 
district is moving forward rapidly, and residents of Dade City 
and Pasco County know that many riches can be taken from the 
soil in farming, fruit 
growing and live 
stock raising. 

— The Seaboard 
Magazine. 

For the informa- 
tion of the visitor, 
Dade City is the 
County Seat o f 
Pasco County, Flor- 
ida, about thirty- 
five miles north-east 
of Tampa and is on 
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roads. Unlike the 
low level regions of 
most of the State, 
Dade City is situat- 
ed on one of the 
highest elevations 
in Florida, which of 
course insures p e r- 
fect drainage and 
a cooler climate in 
summer than many- 
other places. It's 
streets are lined with 
stately evergreen 
Lafee Jones O^ks and through- 

out the whole busi- 
ness and residential sections are massive shade trees. 

The city has the best of artesian water and all other improve- 
ments. The section round about Dade City is a general farming 
one where almost all the crops raised in the North can be success- 
fully grown. You hear farmers here talking about their rye, corn 
and potatoes, just like they do up North. The principal hay and 
forage crops grown are cowpeas, velvet beans, 'beggarweed, Jap- 
anese cane, Bermuda, Natal and Rhodes grass, all of which have 
abundant yields of valuable stock feed. The growing of both 
Sumatra and Cuban tobacco has been successful in the county. 
Dairy farming and poultry is also profitable here. 

And the proof that feed can be raised alongside the poultry 
yard, and that prices are always high, for poultry products, should 
recommend this district to the intelligent, energetic poultryman. 

Pasco County has just passed a $750,000 bond issue for the 
constructionof new roads. The East half of the county in which 
Dade City is located in now building 54 miles of concrete and as- 
phalted concrete and 60 miles of graded clay roads. These roads 
lead into and include the principal business streets of the city. 
The city is connecting the balance of its leading streets with this 
system and are lay- 
ing asphalt streets 
to match the work 
being done by the 
county. 

To the visitor in 
Florida who wants 
to see a fertile ag- 
ricultural section, lit 
will be well to look 
over Dade City and 
this section of Pas- 
co County. He will 
foe surprised at what 
is being done there 
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HAKELAND is in the heart of Polk County, on the main 
line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, and is situated in 
one the best agricultural regions of the whole State. 

The streets are paved with brick and asphalt; it has sanitary 
sewers, a municipal light and water plant, an ornamental "white 
way" covering its entire business section, good banks, excellent 
hotels, places of amusement, good stores and many beautiful 
homes. The best of schools and excellent fire and police protec- 
tion are afforded. 

Taxes are below the average in the State, based on a 60 per 
cent, of actual valuation last year. The city tax was 12 mills. 

The population of Lakeland exceeds 9,000, and is growing every 
day. Lakeland is a farming center and is proud of her wonderful 
crops. The whole region about the town is ideal for truck raising. 
Fortunes have been made here from the soil. Hard work has 
wrought wonders, and some of the tales of wonderful crops read 
like fairy stories. There is not a spot on the earth where a farmer 
can be as independent as right here in Polk County. With its 
wonderful climate, its bright sunshine, its albsence of winter cold 
and bad storms, farming is ideal. 

The Polk County farmer sows and reaps as his brother farmer 
in the North, but his is a succession of many sowings and reapings 
and his soil is yielding twelve months in the year. 

Strawberries will yield six months in the year, and he will 
begin picking them about the time his Northern brother is shov- 
eling paths after the first snow storm. His orange grove will 




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yield all winter and his income from his poultry and hogs ought to 
outstrip his rival up North. 

Opportunity knocks at the farmer's door every day in Polk 
County, and the live agriculturalist answers and assures his own 
success. 

Among the investors and developers of citrus fruits and farm 
land in Polk County are men of millions who have spent years 
in Southern California and the Middle West. Others are leading 
financiers and business men of the country who have lived here 
all their lives and who have taken advantage of local oportun- 
ities. These men have made money in Florida farming and are 
making more money every year. 

The Polk County lake region around Lakeland is justly en- 
titled to recognition in one feature which all sections claim but 
not all possess to the remarkable degree attained in this section — 
"Health." Hundreds of lakes of clear, sparkling, drinkable water, 
temper the cool breezes of winter and cool the warm winds of 
summer. Altitude, rare in the peninsula of Florida, insures free- 
dom from fevers and other ailments of the lowlands. 

The Lakeland section is remarkably clean and pure part of 
the country. In truth it is "God's Outdoors" — healthful, plen- 
tious and productive. Its scenic beauty attracts you at every turn. 
Its lakes offer you the best of sport, and its soil is ready to yield 
you a livelihood. 

The City of Lakeland offers superior advantages to seekers 
after a place to live away from the wild turmoil of the big, hust- 
ling cities. 

Here is a thriving Florida town, 'mid beautiful scenic surround- 
ings, 'neath cloudless skies and in a climate second to none in the 
world, he will find many things to attract him. 

Lakeland is a good place to live. It's healthful, it's quiet, it's 
a place to come and rest and forget everything save one's comfort 
and enjoyment. 

Nestled amid beautiful fresh wate*- lakes, it is cooled on hot 
days of summer as gentle zephyrs are wafted across their placid 
bosoms. In winter its general geographical situation keeps away 
frosts and biting blasts, and the thermometer always registers a 
few degrees higher than along the Gulf shore. 

Its shaded streets, beautiful parks and wide city thoroughfares 
are a delight to behold, and with it all, everywhere is a genera' 
atmosphere of thrift and cleanness not usually seen i a lov^vn O' 
its size. Lakeland is one of the cleanest and cleane cut towns 
in the whole State of Florida. 



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,es. its beautiful beachej. its wonderful inland harbor iu 

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"Ore r-the-water-b ridge.- »i«l find youtscK In Haven Beach. 

until you leave it 

Lots are sclUni; rapidly in Haven Be»ch. More and mor« 
people are hearing of iti charms and avaUiaa themselves of its 
many wonderful opportunitiea. 

if yoa are thinking of a home, investigate Haven Beach 
You will be oitrccably suriiriwd at all you will sec there, and if 
>-o« become one of its home owner* you will find it a plcamr. 
able and prolitabtc inveMment. 

If you live in T*mpa. Haven Beach offers a nearby place 
for a Miramer home. Vou wU marvel at the diflerence in lem- 

if you arc a tourist and want to ipend your winters in the 
Southlaittl. away from the icy weather of your Norlhern cli- 
mate, the owners of Haven Beach defy any other coast reiotl in 
FU'rida to offer a more healthful, more beautiful and mor* de- 
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XHAVE a maiiv) tjears knowledge of Florida 
lands. I know its manij kinds of soil, its good 
groves and poor tlie ones, its good timber and its poor. 
I know^ tlie desirable locations and tlie poor ones. 1 
know Florida vaKies. Land agents statements do not 
deceive me. 

Tell me wkat vjou are interested in. I will gladlv) give 
vjoti general inlorniation -witliout cnarge. 

Do uou wisli to buij a lionie, a grove, a stock farm or in- 
vest in a timber tract or but) land for a Colony proposition. 

Let me act as ijour agent and get prices lor -tjou on suit- 
able locations of desirable properties, tliat are real bargains 
and wortb tlie monetj. 1 guarantee my reports acurate, lionest 
and dependable. 

1 will save t.jou liiindreds, perliaps tliousands of dollars, 
in the purcliase price. I will secure tjou real values in good 
guaranteed properties and save tjoti sellers commissions. Mu 
service in advising ijou in ijour selections v)ou patj me for, and 
1 save vjou tlie commissions usuallij paid to dealers and 
amounting to mantj times mt) service cliarge. 

You cannot afford to invest in Florida w^itliout getting 
advice and suggestions from an experienced, disinterested 
source. Tell me wliat tjou are interested in and let me find 
it for tjou, acting as tjour broker. I treat evertj inauiru con- 
fidential and make no cliarge unless I render ijou real service, 
tjou to be tlie jtidge. 

T. J. YOUMANS 



p. O. Box 657 

OHice Phone 4 1 

Hovise Phone 2957 TAMPA, FLORIDA 



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crop? 

Will tke grapefruit and oranges have that 
waxij perfection and high color that tops the 
market, or will vjour sales agent send excuses 
with the returns. 

Will the potatoes run "nuniter ones" or will 
there be nianij culls and number twos " ? 
What of Ljour beans, peppers, lettuce, celervj 
and other truck crops ? 

Harvesting is sinipltj cashing in on the ef- 
fort and monev) invested. If ijou have done 
well bv) the crop, it will do well bij ijou. Feed 
ijour crop liberalKj if vjou wish it to repavj vjou 
fourfold. 

Don t forget that the cost of cultivation is no 
greater for a good crop than it is for a poor one. 



I BRADLEY FERTILIZERS 

have been for MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the Standard of Excellence. 
^ The knowledge and experience gained in all these ijears is embodied in everij ton. 
[ ;. hese mixtures are seasoned for months in enormous concrete bins, and each grade 
I is made from those materials which science and practical experience have proven 
j best suited to the crop for which it is intended. Bradletj cj^ualitij is never sacrificed. 




Our now book, "MatWel Crop, o( Ploriaa," contain, n.ore iha 
iulU, cultivating, spraijing, iertilillng and marketing. "Cilru.< Cullui 
al.oul iko caro and culture o{ citrus trees. 

S.-ud lo.la.i for a co,>.| ol oilKor book or lor boll.. 



,,aflo, ol lllustr. 
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and Iniorniatlon about crop 
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Tke Bradlei] Fertilizer Works 

Tlie American Agricultural Clieiiiical Companij 
916 HEARD BUILDING JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



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